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[481] 1827.

She vanished—All was joyless, blank, and cold;

But if from wind-swept fields of corn that roll'd

In dreary billows, from the meagre cot,

And monuments that soon may disappear,

Meanings we craved which could not there be found;

If the wide prospect seemed an envious seal

Of great exploits; we felt as Men should feel,