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BY THE SAME. TO THE NORTH STAR.
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TO thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes, [Note:] SONNET XXIII. Line 1. 'The greater Bear, favourite of all the constellations; for when I left you of an evening it used to shine opposite your window,' Sorrows of Werter. Volume Second.
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Fair, fav'rite planet! which in happier days
Saw my young hopes, ah! faithless hopes! arise;
And on my passion shed propitious rays!
Now nightly wandering mild the tempest drear
That howl the woods, and rocky steeps among,
I love to see thy sudden light appear
Thro' the swift clouds driv'n by the wind along:
Or in the turbid water, rude and dark,
O'er whose wild stream the gust of Winter raves,
Thy trembling light with pleasure still I mark,
Gleam in faint radiance on the foaming waves!
So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly,
Then fade: and leave me, to despair and die!
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