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139 All this it tells, and could I trace The imperfect picture o'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, — How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt away — All — but that freedom of the mind ^\^lich hath been more than wealth to me, — Those friendships in my boyhood twined, And kept till now unchangingly, — - And that dear home, that saving ark Where love's true light at last I 've found. Cheering within, when all grows dark An...d comfortless and stormy, round ! THE EMIGRANT'S GARDEN. BY MIS. S E. L. MONTAGU. Far in a deep Canadian wild, A loved, yet lonely, garden smiled : Both foreign to that forest were The flowers, and they who placed them there ! The seeds were sown by stranger hands, The blossoms born of stranger lands, — And spoke of years no more to come, .^nd breathed as with a voice of home. 140 THE ENGLISH HELICON. There oft, at sunset's closing hour, Would he who raised that Eden-bower Turn fondly back to scenes of old, Where Severn's mighty river rolled.
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