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POEMS

BY

SAMUEL ROGERS.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON & CO., DOVER STREET.

1860.

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Oн could my mind, unfolded in my page,

Enlighten climes and mould a future age;
There as it glowed, with noblest frenzy fraught,
Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ;
To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart,
And bid the tear of emulation start!

Oh could it still, thro' each succeeding year,
My life, my manners, and my name endear ;
And, when the poet sleeps in silent dust,
Still hold communion with the wise and just !
Yet should this Verse, my leisure's best resource,
When through the world it steals its secret course,
Revive but once a generous wish supprest,

Chase but a sigh or charm a care to rest ;

In one good deed a fleeting hour employ,

Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy;

Blest were my lines, tho' limited their sphere,

Tho' short their date, as his who traced them here.

1793.

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