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In the Depths of a Forest

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In the depths of a Forest secluded and wild,     The night voices whisper in passionate numbers;     And Im leaning again, as I did when a child,     Oer the grave where my father so quietly slumbers.     The years have rolled by with a thundering sound     But I knew, O ye woodlands, affection would know it,     And the spot which I stand on is sanctified ground     By the love that I bear to him sleeping below it.     Oh! well may the winds with a saddening moan     Go fitfully over the branches so dreary;     And well may I kneel by the time-shattered stone,     And rejoice that a rest has been found for the weary.

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