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Farewell, farewell!—the brightest day must close:

And the sweet vision of my recent hours

Will fade too soon. Ah! will it not return?

The clouds that evening gathered o’er our heads

Stayed not till morn; but leave the sun more bright.

The early mist, that veiled yon green hill-side,

Has risen, and floated on the air awhile,

Then slowly vanished, and you see again

The glades, where sings the bird and bounds the deer.