David Humphreys Poems

Ere we can think of time-the moment's past-
And straight another since that thought began:
So swift each instant mingles with the last,
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Adieu! thou Yale! where youthful poets dwell,
No more I linger by thy classic stream.
Inglorious ease and sportive songs farewell!
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Hark! friends! what sobs of sorrow, moans of grief,
On every gale, through every region spread!
Hark! how the western world bewails our chief,
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I.
WHERE spirits dwell, and shadowy forms,
On Andes' cliffs, 'mid black'ning storms,
With livid lightnings curl'd;
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I.
IN yonder dark and narrow lodging,
There rests a patriot's body,
Which, after many a slip and dodging,
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