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"Hours of Solitude. A Collection of Original Poems. Volume II." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/DacrCHours2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.
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THE APPARITION.
AS slow I wander'd o'er yon barren heath,Musing on woes to comeon evils past,Cursing that fate me in such mould had cast,I at my side did hear a gentle breath!When straitway looking down, behold I sawA piteous impdeform'd his limbs appear'd,And wither'd quitewhile on a stick he rear'dHis wretched weighton nature's face a flaw!Pale was his ashy checkno hope there beam'dFrom his sunk eye; his matted locks, poor child!O'er his mishapen back hung loose and wild,And conscious of his misery he seem'd.Loud blew the wind, and shook the slender wight;With long, thin hand he grasp'd his stick, and rais'dOn me his tearful eyes; sadly I gaz'd,When swift he vanish'd from my troubl'd sight!
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