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But how much more sorrowful the moment of separation to him, who,

having never sent a transient wish beyond the mountains, feels

that they comprise the limit of his earthly hopes, and yet is

driven from them by an adverse fate; who is compelled to quit

them to go into a foreign land, with scarcely a hope of return!

Then he breaks forth into mournful exclamations. "Farewell native

cottage! where, many a time and oft, I have listened with eager

ear, to distinguish, amidst the rumour of footsteps, the

well-known sound of those long expected and anxiously desired.

Farewell, ye scenes, where I had hoped to pass, tranquil and

content, the remnant of my days! Farewell, thou sanctuary of God,

where my soul has been filled with admiring thoughts of him, and

my voice has united with others to sing his praise! Farewell!