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pers, fcarcely to be heard, upon the fands» 

 Never was fpot more calculated to fill the 

 mind with fublime and tender impreffions ! 

 It feemed the fit abode of filence, and of fleep 

 ' — a facred fhade where the child of forrow 

 might fweetly indulge his grief, liften to the 

 fympathetic ruftlings that whifpered to his 

 fighs, and pour forth, in refledion and peni- 

 tence, the genuine efFufions of the heart : 



<* What folemn folitude around \ 

 Here Nature's true fublime is found : 

 Hence thought fliould travel to the Iky." 



It was a penfive and fequeftered retirement, 

 where a forrowing and heart-rended lover 

 might indulge a full feaft of foul, in offering 

 his devotions at the tomb of a loft miftrefs : 

 for, amidft fuch fcenes, the mind fprings from 

 its manfion of clay> to range in plaintive co- 

 gitation and delight : it feafts In rapturous 

 melancholy, and, dwelling in folemn thought, 

 is elevated above itfelf* Filled with fublime 

 contemplation, the fpirit is unmindful of its 

 earthly chains, and the foul, abforbed in great- 

 nefs, foars to its peaceful and heavenly manfioo , 

 above. 



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