<h2><i><SPAN name="TO_F"></SPAN>TO F——</i></h2>
<p class="quotc">[F—— is, presumably, Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood]</p>
<p class="poem">
Beloved! amid the earnest woes<br/>
<span class="ind1">That crowd around my earthly path—</span><br/>
(Drear path, alas! where grows<br/>
Not even one lonely rose)—<br/>
<span class="ind1">My soul at least a solace hath</span><br/>
In dreams of thee, and therein knows<br/>
An Eden of bland repose.<br/>
<br/>
And thus thy memory is to me<br/>
<span class="ind1">Like some enchanted far-off isle</span><br/>
In some tumultuous sea—<br/>
Some ocean throbbing far and free<br/>
<span class="ind1">With storms—but where meanwhile</span><br/>
Serenest skies continually<br/>
<span class="ind1">Just o'er that one bright island smile.</span><br/></p>
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