ASSOCIATIONS. William Lisle Bowles Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 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.

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