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ASSOCIATIONS.

1 As o'er these hills I take my silent rounds,
2 Still on that vision which is flown I dwell,
3 On images I loved, alas, too well!
4 Now past, and but remembered like sweet sounds
5 Of yesterday! Yet in my breast I keep
6 Such recollections, painful though they seem,
7 And hours of joy retrace, till from my dream
8 I start, and find them not; then I could weep[Page 22]
9 To think how Fortune blights the fairest flowers;
10 To think how soon life's first endearments fail,
11 And we are still misled by Hope's smooth tale,
12 Who, like a flatterer, when the happiest hours
13 Pass, and when most we call on her to stay,
14 Will fly, as faithless and as fleet as they!

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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, pp. 21-22.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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