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To twine a fragrant chaplet round thy His manhood blossomed ; till the faith

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Poor faded flow'ret! on his careless way;

For there does Edmund rest, the learned Inhal'd awhile thy odours on his walk,

swain !

And there his spirit most delights to

rove :

Young Edmund! famed for each har

monious strain,

And the sore wounds of ill-requited love.

Like some tall tree that spreads its branches wide,

And loads the west-wind with its soft perfume,

Then onward pass'd and left thee to

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AN UNFORTUNATE

1794.

PALE Roamer through the night! thou poor Forlorn!

Remorse that man on his death-bed

possess,

Who in the credulous hour of tenderness Betrayed, then cast thee forth to want and scorn!

Soft the glances of the youth,
Soft his speech, and soft his sigh;
But no sound like simple truth,
But no true love in his eye.

Loathing thy polluted lot,

Hie thee, Maiden, hie thee hence!
Seek thy weeping Mother's cot,
With a wiser innocence.

Thou hast known deceit and folly,
Thou hast felt that vice is woe:
With a musing melancholy

Inly armed, go, Maiden! go.

Mother sage of Self-dominion,

Firm thy steps, O Melancholy!
The strongest plume in wisdom's pinion
Is the memory of past folly.

The world is pitiless: the chaste one's Mute the sky-lark and forlorn,

pride

Mimic of Virtue scowls on thy distress:
Thy Loves and they that envied thee

deride :

While she moults the firstling plumes,
That had skimmed the tender corn,
Or the beanfield's odorous blooms.

And Vice alone will shelter wretched- Soon with renovated wing

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Here dwelt the MAN OF ROSS! 0 Traveller, hear!

Departed Merit claims a reverent tear. Friend to the friendless, to the sick man health,

With generous joy he viewed his modest wealth;

He hears the widow's heaven - breathed prayer of praise,

He mark'd the sheltered orphan's tearful gaze,

Or where the sorrow-shrivelled captive lay,

Pours the bright blaze of Freedom's noon-tide ray.

Beneath this roof if thy cheered moments pass,

Fill to the good man's name one grateful glass:

To higher zest shall Memory wake thy soul,

And Virtue mingle in the ennobled bowl. But if, like me, through life's distressful

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DOMESTIC PEACE

[FROM THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE, ACT 1.]
TELL me, on what holy ground
May Domestic Peace be found?
Halcyon daughter of the skies,
Far on fearful wings she flies,
From the pomp of Sceptered State,
From the Rebel's noisy hate.
In a cottaged vale She dwells,

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Faint was that Hope, and rayless! Her folded arms wrapping her tattered

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That wan and sickly droops upon her The long lank leaf bowed fluttering o'er

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LINES ON A FRIEND

WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER INDUCED BY CALUMNIOUS REPORTS

EDMUND! thy grave with aching eye I

scan,

And inly groan for Heaven's poor outcast-Man!

'Tis tempest all or gloom: in early youth
If gifted with the Ithuriel lance of Truth
We force to start amid her feigned caress
Vice, siren-hag! in native ugliness;
A Brother's fate will haply rouse the tear,
And on we go in heaviness and fear!
But if our fond hearts call to Pleasure's
bower

Some pigmy Folly in a careless hour, 10 The faithless guest shall stamp the enchanted ground,

And mingled forms of Misery rise around :

Heart-fretting Fear, with pallid look aghast,

That courts the future woe to hide the

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