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by George Gordon, Lord Byron

When, from the heart where Sorrow sits,

Her dusky shadow mounts too high,

And o'er the changing aspect flits,

And clouds the brow, or fills the eye;

Heed not that gloom, which soon shall sink:

My Thoughts their dungeon know too well;

Back to my breast the Wanderers shrink,

And _droop_ within their silent cell.

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