Poems of religion and society.: With notices of his life and character by John Davis and T. H. Benton.

RETROSPECTION. Some mimic stage's thrilling, cry, Some agony of fear, Some painted wonder to the eye, Some trumpet to the ear. These are the' first events of lifib That fasten on the brain, And throu,gh the world's inicessaIt strife IndelilIe remiain. They form the lik vwith ag,es past Fr,om former worlds a gleam; With murky vapors oveicast, The net-work of a diream. 4 37 i, 1

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Poems of religion and society.: With notices of his life and character by John Davis and T. H. Benton.
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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
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New York,: William H. Graham,
1848.

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