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First Line: Farewel, aruna! - on whose varied shore
Last Line: Or wake wild phrenzy -- from her hideous cell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Sussex, England


Farewel, Aruna! -- on whose varied shore
My early vows were paid to Nature's shrine,
When thoughtless joy, and infant hope were mine,
And whose lorn stream has heard me since deplore
Too many sorrows! Sighing I resign
Thy solitary beauties -- and no more
Or on thy rocks, or in thy woods recline,
Or on the heath, by moonlight lingering, pore
On air-drawn phantoms[.] -- While in Fancy's ear
As in the evening wind thy murmurs swell,
The Enthusiast of the Lyre who wander'd here,
Seems yet to strike his visionary shell,
Of power to call forth Pity's tenderest tear,
Or wake wild Phrenzy -- from her hideous cell!





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