. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. THE RETROSPECT. t , On lifes wide plain Cast friendle>s8, where unheard some sufferer cries * Hourly, and oft our road is lone and long, Twere not a crime, should we awhile delay Amid the sunny field; and Iiappier they, * Who, as they wander, woo the charm of song To cheer their path, till they forget to weep, And the tired sense is husht and sinks to sleep. [ 3 ] THE RETROSPECT. , As on I journey through the vale of years, Cheerd by fond hopes, and chilld by doubtful fears j Allow me, Memory, in thy treasurd store
. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. THE RETROSPECT. t , On lifes wide plain Cast friendle>s8, where unheard some sufferer cries * Hourly, and oft our road is lone and long, Twere not a crime, should we awhile delay Amid the sunny field; and Iiappier they, * Who, as they wander, woo the charm of song To cheer their path, till they forget to weep, And the tired sense is husht and sinks to sleep. [ 3 ] THE RETROSPECT. , As on I journey through the vale of years, Cheerd by fond hopes, and chilld by doubtful fears j Allow me, Memory, in thy treasurd store. To view those days that will return no more: . Oh J let thy vivid pencil call to view Each distant scene, each long-past hour anew, Ere yet my bosonf knew the touch of grief, Ere yet my bosom lovd the lyres relief. Yes, as thou dartst thine intelleilual ray, The clouds of mental darkness melt away: So when, at earliest days awaking dawn. The hovering mists obscure the dewy lawn, ,. Oer all the champain spread their influence chill, Hang oer the vale, and hide the lofty hill; Anon, slow rising, beams the orb of day. Slow inelt the shadowy mists, and fade away; [ 4 ] The vapours vanish at the view of morn,And hang in dew-drops on the glistening thorn;The prospe6l opens on the pilgrims sight,And hills, and vales, and woods, refled the beam of light. O thou! the mistress of my future days,Accept thy minstrels retrospedive lays;To
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