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THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST ENHANCES HIS MISERY.
When I look back upon the many years / Which in their flight my best thoughts have entomb'd, / And spent the fire, that, spite her ice, consumed, / And finish'd the repose so full of tears, / Broken the faith which Love's young dream endears, / And the two parts of all my blessing doom'd, / This low in earth, while heaven has that resumed, / And lost the guerdon of my pains and fears, / I wake, and feel me to the bitter wind / So bare, I envy the worst lot I see; / Self-terror and heart-grief on me so wait.