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Want, with her babes, round generous Valour clung,

To wring the slow surrender from his tongue,

"Twas thine to animate her closing eye;

Alas! 'twas thine perchance the first to die,

Crush'd by her meagre hand, when welcom'd from

the sky.

Hark! the bee winds her small but mellow horn, t

Blithe to salute the sunny smile of morn.

O'er thymy downs she bends her busy course,

And many a stream allures her to its source.
'Tis noon, 'tis night. That eye so finely wrought,
Beyond the search of sense, the soar of thought,

Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind;

Its orb so full, its vision so confin'd!

Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell?

Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell?

With conscious truth retrace the mazy clue

Of varied scents, that charm'd her as she flew?

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ANALYSIS

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SECOND PART.

THE Memory has hitherto acted only in subservience to the senses, and so far man is not eminently distinguished from other animals: but, with respect to man, she has a higher province; and is often busily employed, when. excited by no external cause whatever. She preserves, for his use, the treasures of art and science, history and philosophy. She colours all the prospects of life: for we can only

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