HOWLIN' DERVISH' MYSTIC POET - time

There was a time when, though my path was rough,

This joy within me dallied with distress,

And all misfortunes were but as the stuff

Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness.

('Dejection: An Ode, ' ll.76-79)

HOWLIN' DERVISH' MYSTIC POET

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