918 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



Plants that with early perfume feed the breeze^ 

 May best each dank and noxious vapour chase. 



8. 

 The flaunting tulip, the carnation gay, 



Turnbole and piony, and all the train 

 That love to glitter in the noon-tide ray, 



III suit the place where death and silence reign. 



9. 

 Not but perchance to deck some virgin's tomb. 



Where violets sweet their two-fold purple spread, 

 Some rose of maiden blush may faintly bloom, 

 Or withering hang its emblematic head. 



10. 

 The^e to renew with more than annual care, 



That wakeful love with pensive step will go ; 

 The hand that lifts the dibble shakes with fear 

 Lest haply it disturb the friend below. 



11. 

 Vain fear ! for never shall disturber come 



Potent enough to wake such sleep profound, 

 Till the dread herald to the day of doom 



Pours from his trump the world-dissolving sound, 



12. 

 Vain fear ! yet who that boasts a heart to feel. 



An eye to pity, would that fear reprove ? 

 They only who are curst with breasts of steel, 

 Can mock the foibles of surviving love. 



13. 

 These foibles, far beyond cold reason's claim, 

 Have power the social charities to spread ; 

 They feed, sweet tenderness, thy lambent flame, 



W^hich, while it warms the heart, improves the head. f 



14. 

 Its chemic aid a grateful heart applies. 



That from the dross of self each wish refines ; 

 Extrafts the lib'ral spirit, bids it rise. 

 Till with primeval purity it shines. 



15. 

 Take then, poor peasants, from the friend of Gray, 



His humbler praise, for Gray or fail'd to see, 

 Or saw unnotic'd, what had wak'd a lay 

 Rich in the pathos of true poesy. 



16. 

 Yes, had he pac'd this church-way path along, 



Or lean'd like me against this ivied wall. 

 How sadly sweet had flow'd his Dorian song, 

 Then sweetest when it flow'd at nature's call. 



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