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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet,

As that vale, in whose bosom the bright waters meet;

Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,

Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

Yet it was not that Nature had shed o’er the scene

Her purest of crystals and brightest of green;

’Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or rill,

Oh! no – it was something more exquisite still.

’Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,

Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,

And who felt how the best charms of Nature improve,

When we see them reflected from looks that we love.

Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest

In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,

Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,

And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.

But truth shall conquer at the last,

For round and round we run,

And ever the right comes uppermost

And ever is justice done.