Alone

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  1. From childhood’s hour I have not been
  2. As others were—I have not seen
  3. As others saw—I could not bring
  4. My passions from a common spring—
  5. From the same source I have not taken
  6. My sorrow—I could not awaken
  7. My heart to joy at the same tone—
  8. And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
  9. Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
  10. Of a most stormy life—was drawn
  11. From ev’ry depth of good and ill
  12. The mystery which binds me still—
  13. From the torrent, or the fountain—
  14. From the red cliff of the mountain—
  15. From the sun that ’round me roll’d
  16. In its autumn tint of gold—
  17. From the lightning in the sky
  18. As it pass’d me flying by—
  19. From the thunder, and the storm—
  20. And the cloud that took the form
  21. (When the rest of Heaven was blue)
  22. Of a demon in my view