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First Line: A fearless journeyer o'er the mountain-snow
Last Line: When the glad human soul lifts a thanksgiving voice!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Advice; Children; Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A FEARLESS journeyer o'er the mountain-snow
Wert thou, Louise! The sun's decaying light
Oft, with its latest, melancholy glow,
Reddened thy steep, wild way: the starry night
Oft met thee, crossing some lone eagle's height,
Piercing some dark ravine: and many a dell
Knew, through its ancient rock-recesses well,
Thy gentle presence, which hath made them bright
Oft in mid-storms -- oh! not with beauty's eye,
Nor the proud glance of genius keenly burning;
No! pilgrim of unwearying charity!
Thy spell was love -- the mountain-deserts turning
To blessed realms, where stream and rock rejoice
When the glad human soul lifts a thanksgiving voice!





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