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GENTLE KATE. 



For the Bee. 



Iio ! in bold fancy's airy maze, 

 1 spy a dazzling comet's blaze,' 

 Glancing athwart the twinkling fliaie. 

 The movements of the pcerlefs maid ! 

 Now banilh'd to a distant clime, 

 My fancy leaps o'er place and time ; 

 In playful gambols mounts the Ikies, 

 Waving its wings, and flutt'ring as it flies. 

 Spare ! O spare my raptur'd sight I 

 Shine not so thou star of light. 



Xo \ o'er the keys of mellow air. 

 Run the fingers of the fair ; 

 Sweet the warbling notes resound. 

 Sweet the echoing roofs rebound : ' 

 Now {he sings with hallow'd fire, 

 The song that kindles soft desire ; 

 ■Now from her lips in accents move. 

 The heaven-born harbingers of sacred lavct 



Spare '. O spare iiiy ravlfh'd ears ! 



Stop thou music of the spheres. 



Lo! on the daisied turf at even. 

 As if alighted down from heaven. 

 Tripping, gentle Kate is seen, 

 Goddefj of th» spa:igled green; 

 O'er her fair form the evening ray. 

 Pours the warm gl)W of parting day ; 

 While in easy mien (he moves, 

 Around her dance the roiy-dimplingloret. ' 



Spare ! O spire mv raptur'd sight ! 



Shine sot so thou star of light. 



Lo! next the graces three advance. 

 And mingle in the mystic dance ; 

 Now the loo;e trefses of her hair. 

 Float on the bosom of the air j 

 Now their iily arms they raise, 

 Now moving round with gl ding ease; 

 So tcmper'd to the music's air. 

 The easy circling movements of tlic fair 



Star of light, no longer rise ; 



I close my giddy aching ejes! 



Claigi^u College, 



Nov. 15. 1 79 1. 



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