Volume 1

Collective works ... : to which have been prefixed some biographic particulars / by W. Taylor of Norwich.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Collective works ... : to which have been prefixed some biographic particulars / by W. Taylor of Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of fair Icenia, and had mark’d their course By wrath destructive. Sweetly-soothing shades Ye shall not sink unsung, ye still shall live To memory dear, when cold the ruthless hand That bow’d you to the dust. In fancy’s eye Ye oft would seem a holy fragment spar’d Of that deep wood, which, antique legends tell. Once fring’d the steep of Mosswold, and inwrap’d. In its dark bosom, him, the sainted youth. From whose carv’d choir the chanted mass would float Now loud, now low, along the arched path. And guide the stranger pilgrim to his shrine. And oft, again, niethought ycur western verge Had skirted Surrey’s bowers, who erst would start At break of dawn, from wild and feverish dreams. Would wander, heart-struck, through your chilly dews. And mingle with the mournful woodlark’s song His plaintive love-lays, only heedless heard Carv'd choir.~\ The Chapel of St. William in the Wood. Surrey's bowers.] Surrey-house and gardens on the S. W. brow of Mosswold, temp. Hen. VIII.