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Sonnet LXX. To A Young Lady In Affliction, Who Fancied She Should Never More Be Happy.

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Yes, thou shalt smile again! - Time always heals         In youth, the wounds of Sorrow. - O! survey         Yon now subsided Deep, thro' Night a prey         To warring Winds, and to their furious peals      Surging tumultuous! - yet, as in dismay,         The settling Billows tremble. - Morning steals         Grey on the rocks; - and soon, to pour the day         From the streak'd east, the radiant Orb unveils      In all his pride of light. - Thus shall the glow         Of beauty, health, and hope, by soft degrees         Spread o'er thy breast; disperse these storms of woe;      Wake, with sweet pleasure's sense, the wish to please,         Till from those eyes the wonted lustres flow,         Bright as the Sun on calm'd and crystal Seas.

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