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These all-asleep, me all-awake, they find;25h 102
Nor rest nor silence charm the lover's mind.
Already I a thousand torments prove,
The thousand torments of divided love:
The rolling thought impatient in the breast,
The flutt'ring wish on wing, that will not rest;
Desire, whose kindled flames, undying glow;
Knowledge of distant bliss and present woe;
Unhush'd, unsleeping all, with me they dwell,
Children of absence and of loving well.

These pale the cheek and cloud the cheerless eye,
Swell the swift tear, and heave the frequent sigh;
These reach the heart, and bid the health decline;
And these, O Mira! these are truly mine.

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She whose sweet smile would gladden all the grove, Whose mind is music, and whose looks are love; 21

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She, gentle Pow'r victorious softness!--She, v Mira! is far from hence, from love and me woda bashews it Yet in my ev'ry thought her form I find, yd lls 'old' all thy Her looks, her words---her world of charms combin'dificence ar depth Sweetness is her's, and unaffected casejo niqab 1910 The native wit, that was not taught to pleaseboos bit Whatever softly animates the face,ive ses eidt 70 The eye's attemper'd fire, the winning gracejas Th' unstudy'd smile, the blush that nature warms 3 And all the graceful negligence of charms vs Ha! while I gaze a thousand ardours rise, shizu And my fir'd bosom flashes from my eyes. Oh! melting mildness! miracle of charms! Receive my soul within those folding arms; not al On that dear bosom let my wishes rester-zona dosiq ol Ohl softer than the turtle's downy breast; missw b And see! where Love himself is waiting near: worl Here ever let me dwell---for heav'n is here! 104390

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and instructed by thy pow'rful song, puntal
I have, unjust, withheld my thanks too long una
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Thy worth new-lights the poet's darken'd name, And shews it blazing in the brightest fame,

Thro' all thy various Winter full are found 109 CRY
Magnificence of thought, and pomp of sound, owne
Clear depth of sense, expression's height'ning grace,
And goodness, eminent in pow'r and place, sting or
For this the wise, the knowing few commend void){
With zealous joy--for thou art Virtue's friend: L
Ev'n age and truth severe, in reading theed.2
That Heav'n inspires the Muse convinc'd agree.
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Friendless---supported by itself alone: af

For those whose aided will could lift thee high
In fortune, see not with discernment's eye.
Nor place nor pow'r bestows the sight refin'd, wa
And wealth enlarges not the narrow mind,

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How couldst thou think of such, and write so well? Or hope reward by daring to excel an or, Unskilful of the age, untaught to gain Those favours which the fawning base obtain, A thousand shameful arts, to thee unknown, Falsehood and flatt'ry must be first thy own. If thy lov'd country lingers in thy breast, Thou must drive out th' unprofitable guest; Extinguish each bright aim that kindles there, And centre in thyself thy ev'ry care.

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But hence that vileness---pleas'd to charm mankind, Cast each low thought of int'rest far behind:

Neglected into noble scorn---away
From that worn path where vulgar poets stray
Inglorious herd! profuse of venal lays,
And by the pride despis'd they stoop to praise:
Thou careless of the statesman's smile or frown,
Tread that straight way that leads to fair renown
By virtue guided, and by glory fir'd,
And by reluctant envy slow admir'd,

Dare to do well, and in thy boundless mind

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Embrace the gen'ral welfare of thy kind;alue ad
Enrich them with the treasures of thy thought, sival
What Heav'n approves, and what the Muse has
Where thy pow'r fails, unable to go on,
Ambitious, greatly will the good undone
So shall thy name thro' ages bright'ning shineja2 94
And distant praise from worth unborn be thine; A
So shalt thou, happy, merit Heav'n's regard, sta
And find a glorious tho' a late reward.

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TO A SCOTCH TUNE. THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.

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THE smiling morn, the breathing spring
Invite the tuneful birds to sing,

And while they warble from each spray, ben
Love melts the universal lay...

Let us, Amanda timely wise,

Like them improve the hour that flies,
And in soft raptures waste the day
Among the shades of Invermay.

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For soon the winter of the year,
And age, life's winter, will appear;
At this thy living bloom must fade,
As that will strip the verdant shade:
Our taste of pleasure then is o'er;
The feather'd songsters love no more;
And when they droop, and we decay,
Adieu the shades of Invermay!