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ORIGINAL POETRY. 
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Greex ¥ERSES, With @ TRANSLATION, 
written on the DEATH of a CHILD, by a 
PARENT, who-was prevented by ImPRi- 
SONMENT from feeing him during a griev- 
ous and fatal SICKNESS. 
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Texcacac ewunovT neAicco deo ees. 
AN’ tv wrvevua gang, TeTOnTE, coy DoTATOV 
elAxey™ 
Ov praranny dmarois yeiee pacer Ties" 
Ov’ egarn cz0 punter Wagnyocewmy exaOnTo, 
Agvaosg at! atl daneuor Thxopeevn. 
AAW Atdug ye naxes dapen avegag- wpedsCares 
yee 
Avr @> exei of pidaic ayuarwercs Tarne 
Aur@ exci pntne Te nabelerov ape OimrenovTesy 
oad rey 
OiATaTE, (ovgiadac peugiadoy ETEwY. 
HE beauteous Alfred yields his breath ! 
Soon, ah! too foon, thy harfh beheft 
The victim<calls, relentlefs Dratu ! 
And gives his troubled fpirit reft. 
Thy haplefs fire, lamented Shade! 
Nor heard, alas! thy parting figh, 
Nor faw thy paly luftres fade, 
Nor gently clofed thy glimmering eye: 
Thy haplefs fire gave no relief, 
While treams of anguifh round thee flow ; 
Nor footh’d with fympathetic grief 
A wother’s and’1 fifter’s woe. 
But Death o’er perfecuting Power 
His chain of adamant will caft 5 
And, kinder far than man, reftore 
Tbe father to his babe at laf. 
He too, when Time and Nature fail, 
Through ages will enjoy thy charms 5 
Nox brutal Malice then avail 
To tar his darlirg from his arms. 
— Ee 
~ SONNET. 
PT HE birds, melodious harbingers of Spring, 
rain up their race to hymn the rofy 
hours, 
And, in the funbeams of prolific fhowers, 
Mid glittering leaves, to plume their dewy 
Oh! that che Bard, by heaven ordain’d to 
fing ; 
The nocntide fhades of Eden’s rofeate 
bowers, 
And Eve’s meek blufhes, fweeter than her 
flowers, 
Had bred fome darling youth his harp to 
ftring. 
Tien, had a fecond Milton ¢¢ hail’d the 
light,” * 
And waked, in firains divine, the golden 
l¥ret é 
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Elijah’s mantle, in his airy flight, 
Dropt thus, Elifthah’s bofom to infpire 5 
The holy prophet vanifhed from his fizht, 
Rapt ina chariot of celeftial fire! 
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SONNET to a FRIEND, 
"THE youthful lover, parted in defpair 
From her whofe fmiles his heart with 
rapture bleft, 
Feels tranfient joy expand his forrowing 
breaft, : 
To view the portrait of his abfent fair, 
And mark the femblance of her artlefs air, 
By Art’s cold pencil tho” but ill exprefs‘d. 
The faint memorial, o’er and o’er carefs’d, 
Gives him new ftrength his bitter lofs to ~ 
bear. 
So, torn relu€tant from my native plain, ~ 
Where thee, my friend! I crown’d with 
well-earn’d bays, 4 
My kindling bofom fhares its joys again, 
On Thames’ throng’d banks to read thy 
rural lays 5 
For thee the Sylvan Mufe, in fweeteft ftrain, 
Has taught to celebrate the country’s praife. 
- Feb. 5, 1801. DS. ¥, 
—_ ; 
AMATORY STANZAS. 
rps paft—the tunelefs lethargy is o’er, 
fly from Dulnefs and her mole-eyed 
throng, 
To Fancy and to Love I wake once more, 
Once more I wake to Rapture and to Song! 
Whence fpring thefe tranfports of tumultu- 
“ous blifs ? r 
Thefe {weet fenfations whence, to feeling 
true ? 
They breathe ambrofial from myMary’s kifs, 
They ftream from her foft eye of humid blue. 
Dear maid! how oft, immerft in cliearleds 
woe, 
Clofe have I clafp’d thy vifionary form, 
How oft has that ripe cheek’s purpureal glow 
With radiant blufhes freak’d the mental 
ftorm ! * 
Tho’ diftant many a long, long, weary mile, 
Mid my lone path that angel-fhape I view’d, 
View'd in the firft faint dawn thy férious 
{mile, : 
In eve’s pale van thy fleeting frame purfu’d. 
Has Summer aught more tempting than thy 
breaft, — 
Where Nature revels, unconfin’d and free > 
In Autumn’s richeft charms art thow not dreft? 
Winter, and tearful Spring remain for me. 
Yet fpite of Fortune, or cold Caution’s fpite, 
(To Caution’s minions. Fortune I refign,) 
Whiie envious ftars withdraw their curtain’d - 
light, 
Pulfe of my throbbing heart! thou fhalt be 
ming. . D. 
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