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Warwick , Feb . 8 , 1820 . When care sits . heavy on my heart , And all my soul is sunk in sorrow ; When evils dire assail to-day ,
Or pain , in prospects'of to-morrow : Oh , then ! Religion ' s ppw ' ufulcharm , Dispels at once all gloomy sadness ; Reanimates my frame , and fills My breast with peace and joy and gladness .
E'en thus—when Winter ' s chilly hand , Despoils the scenes which once delighted ; And Nature ' s rich and blooming sweets , Are all by storm and tempest blighted ; The Spring returns—and Nature then Displays anew her beauteous treasure ; And hill and dale resound the song , The universal song of pleasure E . . W .
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ON THE BACKWARDNESS OF THF SPRING . " *• Timid and shrinking from the inclement sky ,
Her tresses pale with infant snow-drops bound , The virgin Spring scarce opes her tender eye , Scarce prints her gentle footstep on the ground .
Not tricked , as she was wont , with breathing flowers : ^ Weeping and muffled in a cloudy veil , Pensive , she leads along the sullen hours , Nor trusts her beauties to th * uncivil gale .
Yet Nature looks expectant for her smile ? And vernal Hope waves green oa ev * ry tree ; The buds await her kindling glance , the while , To burst their silky fetters and be free .
O nurst in storms ! sweet daughter of the North ! Still , shall thine angry sire indignant chide ! O baste ! in loveliest majesty come forth , With Youth , and Love , and Zephyr by thy side .
What tjio' in storms thy trembling youth arose , Yet brighter hours shall £ ui 4 e thy radiant car , Thy verdant lap its choicest sweets disclose , And show ' r its riches on the swelling
year . Not thus the Spring qf Man ' s imcertam hour :
His hopes untimely wHHer a » 4 decay ; Sudden the storms qf wintry sprrow low * r , Ere Spring has fled or gummier past away . Though late the promise of the vernal
year , Yet warmer suns fcfeall swell the ripening bloom : But mortal Hopes—when brightest they appear , Gleam for an hour—then , sink m sudden gloom .
O Thou ! whose Spirit &vm n ^ raore below—When last new verdure cMl the ena-* tegM field , How clear , how J > rigfrt , that SP ir ! rs yottttoftil flow ! WHift ( ft featn * « r * fctatt" Wtes , y <* **• reveal'd ! *
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244 Poetry . —A Simile . — On the Backwardness of the Spring .
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A SIMILE . See ' st thou an Eagle on yon cloudArapt cliff , By the fell hand of some unlucky wight Chain'd to its beetling brow ? With eye askance
One while he looks into the firmanent , Marking its measureless expanse , beneath Whose ample concave far and near around The landscape smiles ; smiles the wide waste
Of waters lost in horizon : —now Gazes he sadly on his manacle , Then shakes his ntffl'd plumes , and in mid air Plunges his tether ' s span , and hovering long
Pants sore to burst into the blue abyss , To scan its viewless heights , tlie denizen Of other skies : mournful then 'lights again Upon the bleak and barren rock . E ' en so upon th' extreraest verge of
Earth Tiptoe the Christian stands : through each long day , Poizes his vent'rous wing , scorning the band
That links him to this little eminence , Thi £ incfe-wlde , weather ^ eaten , clondspuent spot Beneath His proper home ; theve is his hriirt , Thithtr teftd all his withes , one sole
thririgfet Ling ' rhig here *«~<» t * ft * e—4 * d be fa heaven . ^^^^ T . J . C .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/52/
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