Volume 2

Good tidings, or, News from the farm. A poem.

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823.
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Good tidings, or, News from the farm. A poem. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yet, still superior to domestic woes, The native vigour of his mind arose, And, as new summers teem’d with brighter views, He trac’d the wand’rings of his darling Muse, And all was joy—this instant all is pain, The foe implacable returns again, And claims a sacrifice; the deed is done— Another child has fall’n, another son*! His young cheek even san is scarcely cold, And shall his early doom remain untold? | No! let the tide of passion roll along, Indignant Reason, leagu’d with Pity, fly, And speak in thunder to the hearts that sigh: . 4