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    O hawthorn tree , I joy to see Thy bloom across the daisied lea ; Dear hawthorn tree , thou bring ' st to me

    Tidings of hours ' tis bliss to see ! Thy milk-white glow , itself a show . All rich witli Evening ' s ruddy glow , Is yet more gay in fancy ' s ray , Shed from the past world's sunset dav

    A nameless * line of bards divine , Whose life lias left on earth no sign , Yet who could reign o ' er thought ' s domain , And touch all springs of pride and pain , In barpings old their dreams have told Of ladies bright and lovers bold ;—Hut still between each tender scene Came milk-white thorn or hazel gieen .

    In what lone grove met Beauty Love , But aye the hawthorn greenM above ? Heard what shy vale the shepherd ' s tale , But hawthorn-sweets perfumed the gale ? In Auburn ' s bard we still regard That note of strings that never jarr'd—The seats outlaid in hawthorn shade , For whispering swain and listening maul .

    In hawthorn screen they met unseen , Margaret and Cranstoun ' s knight , I ween ; In hawthorn bower a ploughman ' s power Has pictur'd earth ' s most raptur'd hour : And oh , poor Burns ! thou tried ' bt by turns Rapture ' s and pain * 8 un tern per'd urns ;—The green thorn grew , the sweet thorn blew , Where thou and Mary sobbVl 'Adieu !'

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    while he sat playing upon an organ / Whether it was the form of Bentham , or Milton , he could not Bay ; but he would be upon his oath , that the air the divine old man was wandering over , was that sublime Mass by Mozart , which comes after his old-fashioned one in See major ,

    commencing with * Nolo Episcopari ! ' If my own affidavit will add anything to the validity of that of my erudite friend , I am sure I have not the slightest objection to make it at Marl borough-street , soliciting his worship ' s , at the same time , to the same effect . The Author of the Exposition of the False Medium , $ fc .

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    On a Hawthorn in Bloom . 341

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    ON A HAWTHORN IN BLOOM .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/49/