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/ Dwells there a shadow on thy brow -- / A look that years impart? / Does there a thought of vanished hours / Come ever o'er thy heart?
/ Or give those earnest eyes yet back / An image of the soul, / Mirrored in truth, in light and joy, / Above the world's control?
/ So may their gaze be ever fraught / With utterance deep and strong, / Yielding a holy strength to right, / A stern rebuke to wrong!
/ Thy soul, upborne on wisdom's wings, / In brighter morn will find / Life hath a higher recompense / Than just to please mankind.
/ Supreme and omnipresent God, / Guide him in wisdom's way! / Give peaceful triumph to the truth, / Bid error melt away!
Lynn, Mass., _November 8, 1866_.