The stars prophetic of repose.

Thou feel'st the sunny influence

Like Memnon's fabled lyre of old,

And wanderest in the beam intense

Which turns the liquid air to gold.

The spirit's bright imaginings

Ne'er soar'd to loftier spheres than thee,

And if I had, thy fairy wings,

Afar from earthly haunts I'd flee.

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