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THE TRUANT DOVE.
"While me, and mine forgetting, you will go
"To some new love." "Why, no, I tell you no,—
"What shall I say such foolish fears to cure?
"I only mean to make a little tour,
“Just—just to see the world around me; then
"With new delight, I shall come home again;
"Such tours are quite the rage—at my return
"I shall have much to tell, and you to learn;
"Of fashions—some becoming, some grotesque
"Of change of empires, and ideas novel;
"Of buildings, Grecian, Gothic, Arabesque,
"And scenery sublime and picturesque;
"And all these things with pleasure we'll discuss—"
"Ah, me! and what are all these things to us?"
"So then, you'd have a bird of genius grovel,
"And never see beyond a farmer's hovel?
