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THE SPIRIT OF DESIGNATION.
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THE SPIRIT OF DESOLATION. There is dark appalling gloom That hangs OCT life's declining. When hope is trembling OCT the tomb, Where not flower is twining; And mid that gloom spirit regns In cheerless devastation,

 And chants her wild bewiIdered strains--- The Spirit of DesoIation. She looks upon the smile of bliss, And turns that smile to sadness She looks on friendships rapturous kiss, And mingles it with madness; And in the heart where love has flown And hope and consolation, She breathes her low despairing moan The Spirit of Desolation. And where pale sickness sheds her blight, With tlreless rage consuming, The form that late was fair and bright In beauty's glory blooming; She loves to stand around and lend Some thought of aggravation, And bid some pang the lone heart rend,- The Spirit of Dissolution. She's seen amid the battles roar On sable pinions flying, And sheds her glance of horror OCT The fallen and the dying. When through the city rings the cry Of midnight conAagration, She hovers in the lurid sky, The Spirit of Desolation. She rides upon the winters storm In all its wild commotion, And oft her lone and spectral form Sweeps OCT the waves of ocean; And oft on Norway's icy shore, In stern exasperation, She plunges mid the Maelstrom's roar, The Spirit of Desolation. She kindles the volcano's flame, And while its path pursuing, She writes her own terrific name In characters of ruin. Amidst the earthquakes direful crash , She claims her habitation; Or hurries down the cataract's clash, The Spirit of Desolation. Wide OCT the Arabs plains of death She sweeps the sandy pillow, Or sheds the Smoon's poisonous breath Around his midnight pillow; She raises Greenland's hills ofsnow, And from their elevation Browns on the icy fields below, The Spirit of Desolation.-