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And O ! when time has borne us on his wingp O ' er the short , months of Nature ' s moral spring ; Be our ' s an equal ardour of the mind , To fill with dignity , the-task assign ed ; In the low vale , or on the heights of fame , To cherish virtue ' s hea \ en-enkindled flame :
Anxious , in Life ' s great drama , to appear Correct , and credit our rehearsals here ; And while around tumultuous passions rage , Act the good part , for— " all the-world ' s a stage . " H . N ,
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TO THE NIGHTINGALE , What time the crimson cloud of light , On Ocean s bosom rests its beam ; When Hesper shews his golden gem > And ushers in the night :
What time the Sun ' s declining rays Beneath Night ' s dusky mantle fail ; Then Philomela tells her tale , To Cynthia ' s sacred face . Say , tuneful songster , why alone Refuse to join the feather'd throng , And mingle with their sprightly song ^ The beauties of thine own f
But to the thicket-shades withdrawn , Thou shun ' st the piercing beam of days Nor ever tun ' st thy artless lay , To hail th' approach of morn .
But when the night with sable veil , Has cloth'd in black the mountain-heads 5 Ah ! then what melody proceedsj And floats on ev ' ry gale .
The lover thus disdains the light , And quits the haunts of human race ; Midst thickest gloom , like thee he strays ^ A songster of the night .