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* " Thoi £ ba 8 t destroyed fl ^ e , traitor i" wildly turning . ^ To " greet tnV as I t& 6 &d , tfiie cried aloud ; Her fine eye flashing , and her fair cheek burning : " Thou seest me here to mine own Borrows bow'd ,
Thou dreaming Falsehood ! of thy falseness proud Still thinking how to use me for thy lyre ; And out of my dark passion ' s thunder-cloud Lightning * to draw : ay , like yon shepherd sire , A living song to make of thy most dead desire .
6 Begone!—I shall not die !"—she said , and faded , Like to some form of mist in evening dim , When the true vision of the eye is shaded , And all around with spectral face and limb The fields and woods seem ghastly . As a hymn Of God long sounds within the sinner ' s brain , * After the airs have tomb'd its notes sublime .
Those words still shook my heart ; all pierced with pain—As haunt a slayer ' s soul the last sighs of the slain I 1 But with the solemn echoes as I quivered Of that prophetic voice of her I loved , Deep phrase of solace she I love delivered Which the infection of their grief
removed—That phrase— She shall not die 1 " Let it be proved By entranced songs of living minstrelsy ; Which lark enclouded , nightingale engroved , May pipe sweet concord to from earth and sky . Whilst the world ' s loving hearts in chorus soft reply !' p . 141 , 14 S
The ' Temporalia' contains a glorious lyric burst of feeling on ' The Three Great Days of France , with some spirited 'Reform Bill Hymns / and two or three minor poems of various merit The most characteristic and sustained flight of the author ' s fancy is the ' Ode to Poesy / which stands at the commencement of the volume , the lofty-pillared porch of his ' Templum Muodi . ' Some fragments of it must conclude this very imperfect notice ; they will be its most efficient portion to all poetical spirits .
'TO POESY . 1 Thou «• wine of demons ! ft by dull flesh abjured , But the true essence of all things divine ! The incense that perfumeth Nature ' s shrine ! Nectar of the heart and brain !
Spirit ' s sun-unfolding rain ! Deep Poesy ! I come to thee , allured By all that I do hear , scent , touch , or see ; From the flower ' s delicate aglet , where the bse . Makes music , to t ^ e . depths of sea an « J Qthear * . Where winds and way $ * . in fierce } oye Ipa ^ K > gsfte * , ; , And storms are thunder- * voiced and lig ^ tuiag -p ^ Joaed , And worlds , Creation ' s spiurkt , extinguished and lUuiped .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/21/
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