The Mind
Exiles
From An American Anthology (1900)
The Mind
Hopes grimly banished from the heart
Are the sad exiles that depart
To melancholy's rayless goal, —
A bleak Siberia of the soul.
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MLA
Hayne, William Hamilton. “Exiles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hayne_wh/6/.
Chicago
Hayne, William Hamilton. “Exiles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hayne_wh/6/.
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