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First Line: O ye voices round my own hearth singing
Last Line: Ne'er again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Voices


O YE voices round my own hearth singing,
As the winds of May to memory sweet,
Might I yet return, a worn heart bringing?
Would those vernal tones the wanderer greet,
Once again?

Never, never! Spring hath smiled and parted
Oft since then your fond farewell was said;
O'er the green turf of the gentle-hearted
Summer's hand the rose-leaves may have shed,
Oft again!

Or if still around my heart ye linger,
Yet, sweet voices! there must change have come:
Years have quelled the free soul of the singer,
Vernal tones shall greet the wanderer home
Ne'er again!





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