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Joyous, careless youth, and merry, happy delight in life find their expression in his love-songs.

Many of these are epithalamia and are characterized by a brilliant near-eastern coloring, as well as by a chaste reserve.

In Egypt, where the muse of his youth found a glorious " Indian summer " in the circle of his friends, he wrote his " swan-song :" " Wondrous is this land to see, With perfume its meadows laden, But more fair than all to me Is yon slender, gentle maiden.

Ah, Time's swift flight I fain would stay, Forgetting that my locks are gray.