. Poems . of grief,With looks that asked, yet dared not hope with her babes round generous Valour clung,To wring the slow surrender from his tongue,Twas thine to animate her closing eye;Alas! twas thine perchance the first to by her meagre hand, when welcomed fromthe sky. Hark! the bee winds her small but mellow to salute the sunny smile of thymy downs she bends her busy many a stream allures her to its noon, tis night. That eye so finely the search of sense, the soar of thought,Now vainly asks the scenes she lef
. Poems . of grief,With looks that asked, yet dared not hope with her babes round generous Valour clung,To wring the slow surrender from his tongue,Twas thine to animate her closing eye;Alas! twas thine perchance the first to by her meagre hand, when welcomed fromthe sky. Hark! the bee winds her small but mellow to salute the sunny smile of thymy downs she bends her busy many a stream allures her to its noon, tis night. That eye so finely the search of sense, the soar of thought,Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind;Its orb so full, its vision so confined!Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ?Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ?With conscious truth retrace the mazy clueOf summer-scents, that charmed her as she flew ?Hail, Memory, hail! thy universal reignGuards the least link of Beings glorious chain. THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. Delle cose custode e dispensiera. Tasso. ;^5 >&=-#. ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND PART. The Memory has hitherto acted only in subservi-ence to the senses, and so far man is not eminentlydistinguished fiom other animals: but, with respectto man, she has a higher province; and is oftenbusily employed, when excited by no external causewhatever. She preserves, for his use, the treasuresof art and science, history and philosophy. She co-lours all the prospects of life; for we can only anti-cipate the future, by concluding what is possiblefiom what is past. On her agency depends everyeffusion of the Fancy, who with the boldest effortcan only compound or transpose, augment or dimi-nish the materials which she has collected. When the first emotions of despair have subsided,and sorrow has softened into melancholy, she amuseswith a retrospect of innocent pleasures, and inspiresthat noble confidence which results from the con-sciousness of having acted well. When sleep hassuspended the organs of sense from their office, shenot only supplies the mi
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