THE OLD ARM-CHAIR.
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
I've cherished it long as a sainted prize;
I've bedewed it with tears and embalmed it with sighs
'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart;
Not a tie will break, not a link will start.
Would ye learn the spell?—a mother sat there:
And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair.
In childhood's hour I lingered near
The hallowed...
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