The Soldier's Widow

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125

132

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To a City Pigeon

To Julia Grisi

Extract from a Poem delivered at the Departure of the

Senior Class of Yale College, in 1826

The Baptism of Christ

135

141

143

On a Picture of a beautiful Boy

148

On the Picture of a Child tired of Play

To a face beloved

150

153

On a Picture of a girl leading her Blind Mother through

ΤΟ

THE REV. LOUIS DWIGHT,

This Volume

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS KINSMAN,

THE AUTHOR.

MELANIE.

J.

1 STOOD on yonder rocky brow,*
And marvell'd at the Sybil's fane,
When I was not what I am now.

My life was then untouch'd of pain;
And, as the breeze that stirr'd my hair,
My spirit freshened in the sky,

And all things that were true and fair
Lay closely to my loving eye,

With nothing shadowy between

I was a boy of seventeen.

Yon wondrous temple crests the rock,

As light upon its giddy base,

*The story is told during a walk around the Cascatelles of

Tivoli.