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[[foreign: French]] sa curiosité ne trouverait pas icy son compte; tout en nous est disposé pour la confondre; L'envie que nous avons de nous connaître n'est sans doute qu'un avertissement que nous nous connaîtrons un jour, et que nous n'avons rien a faire icy de même qu'a tâcher de nous rendre avantageux ce développement futur des mistères de notre existence. [[/foreign]] A Lapland Song 1 The chill mantle of Snow o'er the mountain is cast And the pine's leafless forest loud howls to the blast; But the soft tears of dew a new verdure shall bring And stern winter relent at the sighs of the spring But thy coldness O Yella! all sweet hope denies Unmelted by my ^[[addition]] fears [[/addition]] unmov'd by my sighs. 2 Yon flood's icy bosom forgetting its course By the fetters of winter seems chain'd to its source Yet beneath that hard surface with soft silent tide The streams tho' unheeded, still latently glide