At the creative wonders of thy hand Rapt sons of Science in amazement start, Listening the strains, that brilliant, soft, or grand, Rise at thy touch, and smile on baffled art. And when thy sportive fancies steal abroad, So wild, so new, grotesque, and strange they show, Not less we wonder at their cold abode, Such roses bursting from their sheet of snow! When filial love, by many a melting tear, Dropt on thy mother's breast, its force proclaims, Surprised we see an ardent heart appear, A little Hecla pouring forth its flames. Expanding, strength'ning, may thy mind retain Its powers, its worth, its latent fires thro' life! Priceless the blessing then which they shall gain; Who hail thee sister, daughter, friend, or wife. ADMONITION ΤΟ ROSILD A. FLORIO the wild, the frolic, and the loud, Thy fond attention, thy unswerving truth, The wit that sparkles, and the sense that shines. These rare endowments !-ah, they all are vain, Inured to change, change only can impart Who asks not virtue's or religion's aid! 1. 13. Jura's side-A vast mountain in Switzerland. A MARINE VIEW MORALIZED ADDRESSED TO MISS ANNE LLOYD OF DERBY. * In tender light, and softly shadow'd round, That slender pinnace, with its folded sails, Now let us moralize this pencil'd page; * This Poem was written on request, in the year 1800, in the MS. volume of verses, collected by that young lady. Upon the page destined for these stanzas, a beautiful little sea-scene, with a light-house, and a small turret on the shore, had been previously drawn by her cousin, Miss J. Cheney of Langley. View'd as life's sea the calm and flattering wave; As Truth and Wisdom's strength the ampler tower, Whose fires from wreck may human vessels save When Fate or Passion's whelming billows roar. Should, from yon lesser tower, the lamp of love Yet, if with tender HERO's watchful care And be those far-off palaces and fanes A prosperous city, whence thy bark may bear Then while, amid the rocks and shoals of time, 1. 2. Ampler tower-The light-house. 1. 9. Tender Hero's-Alluding to the story of Hero and Leander in Ovid. 10 |