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Ctflcl and obdurate as the tempered steel , £ Jow they or cannot , or refuse to feel . Ko kind emotion rising on the soul Prompts the deep sigh , or bids the bi g tear roll ; No past endearment brought to present view , Wakes on the mind and kindles grief
anew . Tho' death ' s dread arm spread devastation wide , And friends like rain-drops fall -on every side , , . Indifference lpoks with cold unmoistened eye ^ - . And callous nature never heaves a sigh . Laid in the grave ^ lhey in oblivion rot , Alike forgetting and alike forgot .
Retentive memory , faithless to her trust , riides with their ashes all she knows in dust . Tho * generous souls may doubt the muse ' s theme , And deem the whole but idle fancy ' s dream , That such there are who sympathy
pervert , pTheir ways can witness and their works assert . As mortal sight t * external things confined Sees not what motives actuate the mind , Judgment mature by justice * upright laws
Must from the action trace the moving cause ; 2 ? or acts like rivers , backwards traced ¦ will shew The pristine spring and source from whence they flow .
Tis thus ye spns of Scotia ' s mountains bleak , * Tis thus your works your hardened feelings speak . Yon church-yard razed , ungracious deed ! unfolds
What meek-eyed pity with regret beholds . Jludely uptorn from death ' s dark caverns drear , Strewed on the ground , your fathers ' bones appear j Coffins and skulls and sculptur e d stones
bespread , Th' insulted relics of th' unhonoured dead . No heaving turf in grassy verdure drest ^ ow rriarks the p lace where kindred ashes restj Hands vilel y rude , with due destructive swee ps
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Headlong down hurl'd them from the aajacent steej ); Their human bones in sad confusion laid , Lie thick as leaves beneath the beach- * tree's shade , Or those of old which Buzi ' s son beheld When ZiorTs tribes from Palestine ex' peli'd , By Ch a Idea ' s rivers , in religious spleen , Mung their mute harps upon the willow ' s
green . Say , where shall now the mourniae : widow go To feed her sorrow and indulge her T * co / cm When faithful memory to her view displays The by-past pleasures of her former days ?
Oft has she thro * yon lonely church-yand strayed , At twilight hour , in sorrow * s gar& arrayed ; Beside the spot where her love ' s asfas * slept , Oft has she bowed and o" * er the green turf wept : But now that spot no more her eyes eas |
, No sacred mark points out the hallowed place , Razed his swoln grave , the stone upics-n that told How named , how loved , how honoured and how old . Perhaps even now some duteous * on refurns From torrid climes where ceaseless summer burns , Where many a year with u honour and applause , " He fought in Britain ' s and in Freedom *
cause : Oft had he wishsd Cyet then his wish was vain ) To sec his home and hail his sire again ; But honour ' s voice the kind intent forbade , His country ' s interest still required lib aid : . At length , the long continued conflict o ' ,
Again he visits Britain ' s happy shore ; Enraptured , homeward quick he bends his way With hopes elated and wilh spirits gay : Sweet are the scenes which fancy brings in view . Scenes old to memory , but by absence ncy \ ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/45/
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