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As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, / And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, / So I turn the leaves of fancy till, in shadowy design, / I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise, / As I turn it low to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes, / And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that seems to yoke / Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke.