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Then it lightly soared through the sunny air,

And spoke from its shining track:

“I was a worm till I won my wings,

And she whom thou mourn’st like a seraph sings,

Wouldst thou call the blest one back?”

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ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH.

AUTHOR OF “THE SINLESS CHILD.”