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4. Night came with stars :-across his soul There swept a sudden change ;
E'en at the pilgrim's glorious goal:
A shadow dark and strange
Breathed om the thought, so swift to ll O'er triumph's hour-And is this all?
5. No more than this!-what seem'd it now First by that spring to stand?
A thousand streams of love er ow Bathed his own mountain-land!
Whence, r o'er waste and ocean track, Their wild, sweet voices call'd him back.
6. They call'd him back to many a glade, His childhood's haunt of play,
Where brightly through the beechen shade Their waters glanced away;
They call'd him, with their sounding waves, Back to his thers' hills and graves.
7. But, darkly mingling with the thought Of each miliar scene,
Rose up a arful vision, fraught With all that lay between;
The Arab's lance, the desert's gloom, The whirling sands, the red simoom !
8. Where was the glow of pow'r and pride?
The spirit born to roam?
His alter'd heart within him died With yearnings r his home!
All vainly struggling to repress That gush of pain l tenderness.