The poetical works of William Falconer ... / With the life of the author. Cooke's ed. ... Embellished with superb engravings.

  • William Falconer
Date:
[1798?]
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Credit: The poetical works of William Falconer ... / With the life of the author. Cooke's ed. ... Embellished with superb engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hive and cedar form’d a grateful ihade, ■Vhere light with gay romantic error llray’d ; ['he myrtles here with fond carefles twine ; rherc, rich with tuiStar, melts the pregnant vine : \nd lo ! the llream, renown’d in claliic fong, lad Lethe, glides the filent vale along. )n molTy banks, beneath the citron grove, fhe youthful wanderers found a wild alcove : 'oft o’er the fairy region languor dole, Ir.d with fweet melancholy charm’d the foul, lerc firft Palemon, while his penfivc mind 'or coniolation on his friend reclin’d, n pity’s bleeding Ijofoin pour’.d the ftream )f love’s foft anguilh, and of grief I'uprtme; rt'O true thy words ! by fweet remembrance taught, •ly heart in fccret bleeds with tender thought: n vajn it courts the folitary fliade, iy every -aftion, every look betray’d ! fte pride of generous woe difdains appeal 'o hearts that unielenting frofts congeal; *et fine, if right Palemon can divine, rhe fenfe of gentle ])ity dwells in thine. ’cs ! all his cares thy I'ympathy (hall know, iind prove the kind companion of his woe. Albert thou kuow’ft with fkill and fcience grac’d, n humble ftation tho’ by fortune plac’d; 'et, never feaman more ferenely brave ■ed Britain’s conquering fquadrons o’er the wave. Vhere full in view Augufta’s Ipires are feen, Vith flowry lawns, and waving woods between, L peaceful dwelling ftands in modeft pride, Vhere Thames, flow-winding, rolls his ample tide, 'here live the hope and plcafure of his life, 1 pious daughter, with a faithful wife, dr his return, with fond officious care, till every gratefu; objeft thefe prepare ; Whatever ciu allure the fmell or fight, Ir wake the drooping fpirits to delight. This bltjoming maid in virtue’s path to guide, Icr anxiou.': parents all their cares apply’d : C
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