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	SWEET INNISFALLEN (THE CAPTIVATING YOUTH.)		123
	2. Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In mem'ry's dream that sunny smile, Which o'er thee on that evening fell, When first I saw thy fairy isle.	6. For, though unrivall'd still thy grace, Thou dost not look, as then, too blest, But thus in shadow, seem'st a place Where erring man might hope to rest,-
	3- 'Twas light, indeed, too blest for one Who had to turn to paths of care; Thro' crowded haunts again to run, And leave thee bright and silent there ;	7-Might hope to rest, and find in thee A gloom like Eden's, on the day He left its shade, when every tree, Like thine, hung weeping o'er its way.
	4-No more unto thy shores to come, But, on the world's rude ocean tost, Dream of thee sometimes, as a home Of sunshine he had seen and lost!	S. Weeping or smiling, lovely isle ! And all the lovelier for thy tears ; For though but rare thy sunny smile, 'Tis Heaven's own glance when it appears.
	5-Far better in thy weeping hours To part from thee, as I do now, When mist is o'er thy blooming bowers, Like sorrow's veil on beauty's brow.	9- Like feeling hearts whose joys are few, But, when indeed they come, divine ; The brightest light the sun e'er threw Is lifeless to one gleam of thine !
	H. 4868.