THE STUDENT’S DREAM OF FAME.

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BY ROBERT MORRIS.

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’Tis midnight’s solemn hour! And mark—yon room

Narrow, and dimly lit. The thicken’d gloom

Of deepest night is scarcely chased away,

The lamp so small—so thin its feeble ray!

Alas! poor student! What a fate is thine!

Within thy bosom burns a ray divine,