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TO A FRIEND.

1 Go, then, and join the murmuring city's throng!
2 Me thou dost leave to solitude and tears;
3 To busy phantasies, and boding fears,
4 Lest ill betide thee; but 'twill not be long
5 Ere the hard season shall be past; till then
6 Live happy; sometimes the forsaken shade
7 Remembering, and these trees now left to fade;
8 Nor, 'mid the busy scenes and hum of men,
9 Wilt thou my cares forget: in heaviness
10 To me the hours shall roll, weary and slow,
11 Till mournful autumn past, and all the snow
12 Of winter pale, the glad hour I shall bless
13 That shall restore thee from the crowd again,
14 To the green hamlet on the peaceful plain.
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Title (in Source Edition): TO A FRIEND.
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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, p. 17.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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