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WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING, by                    
First Line: Where are the tearful smiles of youthful spring
Last Line: Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance
Subject(s): Sickness; Spring; Illness


Where are the tearful smiles of youthful Spring,
That nursed the budding leaves and infant flowers?
Ah! vanished -- like those dear regretted hours
That fled away on Pleasure's fairy wing,
When Hope light scattered o'er my glowing way
Her rose-buds of delight. -- The cooling breeze,
The wily sportive warblers of the trees,
And garlands sweet that made the woods so gay,
All, all are gone. -- Spring will return again,
But never more for me its charms shall bloom,
For me then slumbering in the dreary tomb
The birds will sing and flow'rets blow in vain;
While gentle gales, the budding trees that wave,
Will breathe their lonely sighs across my grave.





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