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Midway the flights of daws wheel clang-Sngty * r 4 Fluttering in legion from their rifted cells Into the buoyant air , and clamouring shrill .
Till disappearing in their cavern'd hill . Yes , many gladly gaze upon thee now , For Autumn ' s gale has tinged ( by sprays with gold , And rent the verdure frotaa thy rocky brow ,
Q ' er which the startling sky peers pale atnd cold : i r ! rhy reeling oaks their knotted branches bow , ^ And their heap'd leaves pee trod 4 e « in the mould : And brakes , their screen had hidden ,
« open deep Their feru and hollies up the Biossy steep . The sadden ed green with reddening orange vies , The rocks are mellow'd with their gorgeous gloom Of verdure , fainting into sober'd dies ; Yet bronzed with gleaming tints : the crested comb Sheds its flush'd foliage , as the gusts
, Scattering with ruffling breath its tawny plume : The sweeping host of leaves , in whirling rings , Is snatch'd and mingled on the breeze ' s wings . The paiLiter haunts thee : he whose lusl trous eye Reflects the forms of nature in the } .., glow Of tneir internal life and majesty : . Whose raptures are his own : for none may know That consciousness and deepest
sympathy , Which wraps him from the sense of outward woe : His world is his own breast i unfelt the thorn Of want ; th' unenvied wealthy are his scorn . The poet haunts thee ; whose high gift was lent
. Par good , yet oft is prostitute to ill : Ita&wing sweet influence from yon firma ment , And pure instruction from each gurg ling ritt :
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Or scowling up in impious discontent , Perverting thought and sensualizing f | f will ; ^ Slavering on God ' s dread name his adder ' s rage , Prophet of sin and pander of his age .
The love-sick madden haunts thee : she that feels Mysterious yearnings of romantic love Unrealized on earth , and sighs and kneels , Shaping , amoug thy woods , a Paphian grove For her heart ' s idol : there , pereh&nce , he
seals His vows upon her lip ; and there they ' = w ? e ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ ' •¦>¦ - - " . Imparadised , and the hoarse Bobbing / winds > Mix with their plaints of hard and worldly minds *
And the wan mourner ha tints thee : the sere leaves Whisper the lesson ^ f our fading days ; The nodding ivy-twine a garland weaves For some ideal tomb , and winds its sprays
With a sepulchral meaning : fancy heaves The herbage to a grave , and cold tears glaze The eyes that on « ach moss-grown hillock brood * And those lone feet are rooted in the wood .
There is a knell in that shrill rising blast , And every pale leaf eddying from its s |> r * ay Tells of the flight of spirits that have pass'd ; And we are stepping to their house of clay ; Soon will the musing ejre be overcast , And hot a pulse its anxious throb * betray ; We tread the print of steps that trod
before ;«* ' . * Like theirs the ^ Hef that paiu'd shall pain no more . Oh , for those minds that , in a better age , Shone , England ! beacons of thy glorious land !
That wielded ' gainst the tyrant ' s lawless rage A people ' s energies ,, and dared to brand Mitred dominion , and , as on a ^ stage . Where men are actors , took thdir lofty stand ! t : " rl . ? v
Not then thy flag against the free unfurl'd ! Thou despot ' s dr&dge I thou gaoleri of the world I v
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50 Poetry . — tp a Vaitpy on the Avon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1823, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1780/page/50/
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