Page images
PDF
EPUB
[ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][subsumed][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors]
[graphic]

A ьт

W

W

32

[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors]

James Fittler 4.R.A. sculp

of 218 tengilam mort tode he rides

Atlantic war

16W jusqms

afar.

[ocr errors]

"Where Andes . giant of the western star.

[ocr errors]

With meteor-standard to the winds unfurt d
Looks from his throne of clouds ver half the world.

Publish'd as the Act directs by Longman & Co August 23.1805.

[blocks in formation]

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,
That calls each slumb'ring passion into play.
Wak'd by thy touch, I see the sister band,
On tiptoe watching, start at thy command,
And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer,
To Pleasure's path, or Glory's bright career.

Primeval Hope, the Aonian Muses say,

When Man and Nature mourn'd their first decay;
When every form of death, and every woe,

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,
Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again;
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind,
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

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

[ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors]
« PreviousContinue »