2 During the last illness of his father, who died at Newington Green, in house where the poet was born. TO TWO SISTERS.1 1795. WELL may you sit within, and, fond of grief, Changed is that lovely countenance, which shed Light when she spoke; and kindled sweet surprise, As o'er her frame each warm emotion spread, Played round her lips, and sparkled in her eyes. Those lips so pure, that moved but to persuade, Yet has she fled the life of bliss below, And now in joy she dwells, in glory moves! 1. On the death of a younger sister. At each response the sacred rite requires, O'er her fair face what wild emotions play! Ah soon, thine own confest, ecstatic thought! That hand shall strew thy summer path with flowers; And those blue eyes, with mildest lustre fraught, Gild the calm current of domestic hours! |