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SONG. [Life's a varied, bright illusion]

1 Life's a varied, bright illusion,
2 Joy and sorrow — light and shade;
3 Turn from sorrow's dark suffusion,
4 Catch the pleasures ere they fade.
5 Fancy paints with hues unreal,
6 Smile of bliss, and sorrow's mood;
7 If they both are but ideal,
8 Why reject the seeming good?
9 Hence! no more! 'tis Wisdom calls ye,
10 Bids ye court Time's present aid;
11 The future trust not — Hope enthrals ye,
12 "Catch the pleasures ere they fade."

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Title (in Source Edition): SONG. [Life's a varied, bright illusion]
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, p. 15. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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