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On my own

MINIATURE PICTURE,

Taken at Two Years of Age.

And I was once like this! that glowing cheekWas mine, those pleasure-sparkling eyes; that browSmooth as the level lake, when not a breezeDies o'er the sleeping surface! twenty yearsHave wrought strange alteration! Of the friendsWho once so dearly prized this miniature,And loved it for its likeness, some are goneTo their last home; and some, estranged in heart,Beholding me with quick-averted glancePass on the other side! But still these huesRemain unalter'd, and these features wearThe look of Infancy and Innocence.I search myself in vain, and find no traceOf what I was: those lightly-arching lines
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