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[Variant 25:]

It is my purer better mind
O maiden innocently kind
What sights I might have seen!
Even now upon my eyes they break!
And then the youth began to speak
Of lands where he had been.




MS.

It is my purer better mind
O maiden innocently kind
What sights I might have seen!
Even now upon my eyes they break!
And then the youth began to speak
Of lands where he had been.

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[Variant 26:]

1845
But now the pleasant dream was gone, 1800
Full soon that purer mind ... 1820

But now the pleasant dream was gone,

Full soon that purer mind ...

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