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To a Wife , Oti the jinniv crsary of Iier Marriage \ See Time , Sere ? ia , close our thirtieth year Since , first , the bliss was mine to greet thee Wif « v And breathe the vow , to mcm'ry ever dear , With thee to share th' allotted hours of
life . Blest hours ! tjiy love has well essay'd to fill With sweet content , alone by virtue giv ' n , Grateful the good enjoy'd , endHrM the ill , Submissive to th' all-just dispose of heav ' n .
And now , affection' « Mwx > thing arts to prove , O ' er ague ' s honour * d couch I see thee bend , And sure some fond remembrance of thy love , . Shall with thy sire ' s departing pray ' r ascend . Nor vainly lavish'd thy maternal care ,
Tho' fortune lend no more her gladd ning rays , If . virtue , knowledge , health , our offspring share , And , haply , theirs to welcome brighter days .
Yet meddling men / ry , busy oer the past , Will oft revive a parent ' s tender woe j Sttch as when , hope still ling ' ring to the last , The truth severe ' twas ours , alas ! to know .
And still the silent sorrow we partake > Till number'd days expend our tale of time ; Oft as lov'd scenes regretful thoughts awake , That widel y wander o ' er a distant clime . Yet , hail the light from beav ' n- —the vision fair , , That raptur'd seers to . human hope dis-PW , > Lo ! man restor ed —the end of pain and care , For all the former things are pass'd aw art * SENILIUS .
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r Yet , pensive ^ o ' er the beauteous scene stray , Vox sad affection points to yonder tomb : Where sleeps Sarissa , she whose gentle care , B-ade on her guests the friendly mansion smile ; A husband's happy hours who late would share , Or every grief with lenient arts beguile . Her ' s was the charming sympathy of joy , Yet her ' s full many a piercing pang to feel , As'long beside a sister ' s hapless boy , She watch'd life ' s quiv ' ring lamp with all a parent ' s zeal . l £ * en where the stranger , sorrow ' s friendless child , O ' er pen ' ry ' s gloomy desert rov'd forlorn , His tale she would inquire , in accents mild , Nor dealt the boon with pride ' s oppressive scorn *
Foster'd by heav ' n hen modest virtues grew , Unlike the themes of flatt ' ry ' s loud acclaim ; Virtues that time's primeval children knew , Ere plum'd ambition wak'd the trump of fame . Heroes avaunt ! my grie £ -tun * & lyre shall praise , " The tender sister , daughter , friead and wife , " Whose gentle passions $ hed nd baneful rays , But cheer'd the scenes of calm , domestic . life ,. _ , .
Ah , Spring \ thy balmy gales , thy blooming flow ' rs , Suit not the pensive musings of my soul ; Led by sad sympathy to leafless bow * rs , To dreary wilds , where wint ' ry tempests howl . Yet hark ! what strains the heav ' n-taug ht ; sages sing : Nature J I envy not thy vernal glow ; For when no more thy winter yields to spring , With fadeless charms the human flow ' r shall blow . Nor ill the lot of mortals will I deem , Though , Paradise ! thy plant * can neV be found |
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i Elegy Written at Thorpe Hxlt , Essex , 1794 . Blithe Spring now leads the jocund hours of May , Again the hUta , the laughing vallies bloom ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/40/
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