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First Line: Through glades and glooms! Oh fair! Oh, sad!
Last Line: The lovely scenes long past: long past


Through glades and glooms! Oh, fair! Oh, sad!


The paths of song, that led through these
Thy feet, that once were free and glad
Through glades and glooms! Oh, fair! Oh, sad!
To wander beneath Winton trees!
The paths of song, that led through these
Now in soft shades of sleep they tread
Thy feet, that once were free and glad
To wander beneath Winton trees!
By ways and waters of the dead.
Now in soft shades of sleep they tread


By ways and waters of the dead.
There tender Otway walks with thee,

And Browne, not strange among the dead:

By solemn sounding waters ye,
There tender Otway walks with thee,
By willow vallies, gently led,
And Browne, not strange among the dead:
By solemn sounding waters ye,
Think on old memories of her,
By willow vallies, gently led,
Courtly and cloistral Winchester.

Think on old memories of her,

Courtly and cloistral Winchester.
So memory's mingled measure flows,

In shadowy dream and twilight trance:

Past death, to dawn of manhood, goes
So memory's mingled measure flows,
Thy spirit's unforgetting glance;
In shadowy dream and twilight trance:
Through glades and glooms! And hails at last
Past death, to dawn of manhood, goes
The lovely scenes long past: long past.
Thy spirit's unforgetting glance;

Through glades and glooms! And hails at last

The lovely scenes long past: long past.






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