A ьт W W 32 James Fittler 4.R.A. sculp of 218 tengilam mort tode he rides Atlantic war 16W jusqms afar. With meteor-standard to the winds unfurt d Publish'd as the Act directs by Longman & Co August 23.1805. With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight: Thine is the charm of life's bewilder'd way, Primeval Hope, the Aonian Muses say, When Man and Nature mourn'd their first decay; Shot from malignant stars to earth below; 30 When Murder bared her arm, and rampant War 35 Yok'd the red dragons of her iron car ; When Peace and Mercy, banish'd from the plain, Thus while Elijah's burning wheels prepare, From Carmel's height to sweep the fields of air, The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world—a sacred gift to man. 40 Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe : Won by their sweets, in Nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring! 45 50 |