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    Blest , if they know how sweet they are , And that earth also is a star . .. I met a lady by the sea , A heart long known , a face desired , Who led me , with sweet breathful glee , To one that sat retired ; - — That sat retired in reverend chair , That younger lady ' s pride and care , Fading heav e nward beauteously , In a long-drawn life of love , With smiles below and thoughts above : And round her play'd that fairy she , Like Impulse by Tranquillity .

    And truly might they , in times old , Have deem'd her one of fairy mould Keeping some ancestral queen Deathless , in a bow ' r serene ; For oft she might be noticed , walking Where the seas at night were talking ; Or extracting , with deep look , Power from out some learned book ; Or with pencil or with pen , Charming the rapt thoughts of men : And her eyes ! they were so bright , They seemed to dance with elfin light , Playmates of pearly smiles , and yet So often and so sadly wet , That Pity wonder'd to conceive , How lady so beloved could grieve . And oft would both those ladies rare * Like enchantments out of air , In a sudden show'r descend Of balm on want , or flow ' r on friend ; No matter how remote the place , For fairies laugh at time and space . From their hearts the gifts were given , As the light leaps out of heaven . , <

    Their very house was fairy : — -none Might find it without favour won For . some great zeal , like errant-knight , ;; Or Want and sorrow ' s holy right ; i T An $ then they r ^ ach'd it fry Jong rounds » j Of lanes betweeu thick pastoral grounds «•/ Nest ^ liJlM ^ i ^ dj ^ l ey ^ of ^ old trec ^> ;•; , ; , L ^ Until at last , in lawny ease , Down by agard ^ ft x ^ d itslfountoitts ^ i i \ m ^ o In the kefc o £ mMMmMtofatmaj i vjino'U Rose , as if exempt from death , . \ - " > h ^ Asi-i- * ht ( . - ? Its many ^ muricd household breath ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/20/