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Ye relatives , repine not at his doom , ( Alike ; must fall the youthful and the brave , ) - Though no eulogium shall bedeck his tomb , . No trophy glitter at his peaceful grave . Cranbre < fk 9 July 26 , 1808 SAMUEL DOBEUL .
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The Lamentation of JephthaKi Daughter See Ju dges , chaps . 11 and 12 . I . Daughters of Israel , come with me , And let us to the mountains , flee ; There will I tell to echoing hills The grief that now wiy bosom fills ! Abdiel , to the hills I flee , To mourn * ny banishment from thee
II . Torn from thy arms , Abdiel , now I yield me to a father ' s vow ; } fall , alas ! no more to rise , To £ lial love a sacrifice ! And now I to the mountains flee , To mourn my banishment from thee
HI . Bid not I see Abdiei brave , Undaunted plunge in Jordan ' s wave , And on the wi ;> gs of hoitourfly , ResolVd to conquer or to die ? But now I to the mountains flee , To mourn my banishment from thee !
IV . And as my father ' s chosen band Spread terror o ' er a guilty land , Abdiel , foremost of the train , Drove Ammon ' s sons across the plain . But now 1 to the mountains flee , To mourn my banishment from thee ! V .
I saw the valiant youth with joy , ¦ Cover ed with wounds and glory , fly ; Impatient Israel ' s sons to tell How Ammon fought- —how Ammon fell £ ut now I to the mountains flee , To mourn my banishment from thee
VI . And when I saw the battle cease , I fondly haifd returning peace , When I with thee . hould live and love , Nor ever from thy presence move ; But now I to the mountains flee , To mourn my banishment from thee
VII . Ves , now I to the mountains flee , To mourn , my baniihjnent from ttoee :
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Torn from thy arms , Abdiel , now I yield me to a father ' * vow ; And to the mountains joyless flee , To mourn my banishment from thee I VIII . Daughters of Israel , join my cries , And let them , pierce yon azure skies , While every rock and fruitful vale , Hears and reverberates my tale . Abdiel , to the hills I flee , To mourn my banishment from thee ! JOSEPH NIGHTINGALE .
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SONNET . When hurrying by , the genius of the blast Snatcheth the wood-tops in his giant hand , Then rushing o ' er the low and shadowy sand , Sweeps with his whirling wing the
ocean ' s waste ; 01 then , what gloomy luxury to stand , Watching the withering stars ! to see them fling Their dark red . fire thro' black ' ning clouds , that bring Horror and tempest to the sleeping * land i
What luxury to watch the dim-seen waves , And hear their flashing billows lash the : yhore ; Thinking how many find in them their graves , Who " dream of war and sorrow now no more ;" How many there find toil and torture
o er , Who groan'd on earth , some fellow mortal ' s slaves i M .
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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP . Written by a Girl of thirteen years old Love is a flame of fierce desire , Lit by a spark of fancy ' s fir-e ; Hope ' s breath supports the miser g low , Whose warmth one breast alone must know .- —•
But friendship is the vestal ' s flame , Which from high heaven benignant came ; Virtue and wisdom guard its light , An 4 bid the flames stiU roll aright - ?* , If all were geod , it could dispense On all its sun-like influence .
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Poetry . 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/41/
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