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First Line: The shivering native who, by tenglio's side
Last Line: For him those beams of heaven shall never shine again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland


The shivering native who, by Tenglio's side,
Beholds with fond regret the parting light
Sink far away, beneath the darkening tide,
And leave him to long months of dreary night,
Yet knows, that springing from the eastern wave
The sun's glad beams shall re-illume his way,
And from the snows secured -- within his cave
He waits in patient hope -- returning day.
Not so the sufferer feels, who, o'er the waste
Of joyless life, is destin'd to deplore
Fond love forgotten, tender friendship past,
Which, once extinguish'd, can revive no more!
O'er the blank void he looks with hopeless pain;
For him those beams of heaven shall never shine again.





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