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HE DESIRES TO DIE, THAT HIS SOUL MAY BE WITH HER, AS HIS THOUGHTS / ALREADY ARE.
E'en in youth's fairest flower, when Love's dear sway / Is wont with strongest power our hearts to bind, / Leaving on earth her fleshly veil behind, / My life, my Laura, pass'd from me away; / Living, and fair, and free from our vile clay, / From heaven she rules supreme my willing mind: / Alas! why left me in this mortal rind / That first of peace, of sin that latest day? / As my fond thoughts her heavenward path pursue, / So may my soul glad, light, and ready be / To follow her, and thus from troubles flee.
Whate'er delays me as worst loss I rue: / Time makes me to myself but heavier grow: / Death had been sweet to-day three years ago!
MACGREGOR.