Marmion . TTT TTTTTTTT TT TT TT Tj^; Lilii;^^: IT I lyTROBUCTWN TO Pleased, views the rivulet ufur,Weaving its maze irregular;And pleased, we listen as the breezeHeaves its wild sigh through Autumn treesThen, wild as cloud, or stream, or gale,Flow on, flow unconfined, my Tale ! Need I to thee, dear Erskine, tellI love the license all too well,In sounds now lowly, and now raise the desultory song ? —Oft, when mid such capricious chime,Some transient fit of lofty rhymeTo thy kind judgment seemed excuseYov many an error of the muse,Oft hast thou said, If, still misspent,Thine hours to p
Marmion . TTT TTTTTTTT TT TT TT Tj^; Lilii;^^: IT I lyTROBUCTWN TO Pleased, views the rivulet ufur,Weaving its maze irregular;And pleased, we listen as the breezeHeaves its wild sigh through Autumn treesThen, wild as cloud, or stream, or gale,Flow on, flow unconfined, my Tale ! Need I to thee, dear Erskine, tellI love the license all too well,In sounds now lowly, and now raise the desultory song ? —Oft, when mid such capricious chime,Some transient fit of lofty rhymeTo thy kind judgment seemed excuseYov many an error of the muse,Oft hast thou said, If, still misspent,Thine hours to poetry are lent,Go, and to tame thy wandering course,Quaft from the fountain at the source;Approach those masters, oer whose tombImmortal laurels ever bloom :Instructive of the feebler from the grave their A^oice is heard;From them, and from the paths they showedChoose honored guide and practised road ;Nor ramble on through brake and maze,With harpers rude of barbarous days. Or deemst thou not
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