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To Laura In Death. Sonnet IX.

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S' Amor novo consiglio non n' apporta.     HE DESCRIBES HIS SAD STATE.         If Love to give new counsel still delay,     My life must change to other scenes than these;     My troubled spirit grief and terror freeze,     Desire augments while all my hopes decay.     Thus ever grows my life, by night and day,     Despondent, and dismay'd, and ill at ease,     Harass'd and helmless on tempestuous seas,     With no sure escort on a doubtful way.     Her path a sick imagination guides,     Its true light underneath--ah, no! on high,     Whence on my heart she beams more bright than eye,     Not on mine eyes; from them a dark veil hides     Those lovely orbs, and makes me, ere life's span     Is measured half, an old and broken man.     MACGREGOR.

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