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ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782.

1 The spring shall visit thee again,
2 Itchin! and yonder ancient fane,
45 St Croix.
3 That casts its shadow on thy breast,
4 As if, by many winters beat,
5 The blooming season it would greet,
6 With many a straggling wild-flower shall be dressed.
7 But I, amid the youthful train
8 That stray at evening by thy side,
9 No longer shall a guest remain,
10 To mark the spring's reviving pride.
11 I go not unrejoicing; but who knows,
12 When I have shared, O world! thy common woes,
13 Returning I may drop some natural tears;
14 As these same fields I look around,
15 And hear from yonder dome
46 The Cathedral.
the slow bell sound,
16 And think upon the joys that crowned my stripling years!

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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. 77.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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