PRAYER то HEALTH: WRITTEN WHILE SEVERAL OF THE AUTHOR'S FRIENDS WERE SUFFERING FROM SICKNESS. And crown of every good we know; At thy approach each drooping flower And all the Loves before thee bend As from thy breathings they inhale Come then, fair daughter of the sky, Haste Haste to the couch where CHARLOTTE lies (a), Arm him to bear the death-blow giv'n, The pang that lifts his child to heaven. Where mirth, like morn-beams, used to break: Then wave thy wand o'er HARRIET's brow (c), And give the Friend with wisdom fraught (d) The power to use his stores of thought; Diffus'd thro' many a moral page. Nor, ah! to that time-honour'd Seer (e) Deny thy smile his age to cheer. Age such as his shall still be gay, If thou but deign to gild his way: Sweet SHENSTONE's friend then still shall be Blithe as his own EUPHROSYNE; And, number'd 'midst the tuneful throng, And he, whose cup of joy ran o'er (ƒ) With Fortune's and THY richer store; While Nature, Sense, and Beauty smil'd, In the soft forms of wife and child: But But ah! who now on distant shores Nor yet to yonder laurell'd Sage, But wing thy way to Lowestoff's shade, Then, if a boon remains with thee, NOTES. NOTE S. Note (a), page 25. Haste to the couch where Charlotte lies- Ax amiable and highly accomplished young lady, who died soon after this poem was written. A tender tribute to her memory, by her father, will be found amongst the original poetic contributions. Note (1), page 25. Revisit pale Silylla's cheek— The Author's beloved and ingenious relative, whose happy poetical powers have given an attraction to his former publications, and will be found to adorn part of the present volume under her accustomed signature-Unaltered in worth and talents, but, alas! still the victim of sickness. Note (c), page 25. Then wave thy wand o'er Harriet's brow The wife of WILLIAM MOODY, Esq. of Beau-Desert Park, near Henly in Arden. A woman of uncommon felicity of expression, and of a most generous heart. More than one effusion to her memory will be seen in the course of this division of Harvest Home. Note (d), page 25. And give the Friend with wisdom fraughi→ Rev. Dr. MAVOR, then suffering heavily; but now happily restored to his Friends and the Public, both of whom know how to appreciate the qualities of his head and heart. Note 1 Note (e), page 25. Nor, ah! to that time-honour'd Seer Rev. Mr. GRAVES; of whose intellectual energy at the age of ninetytwo*, an extraordinary specimen will be given in the course of this volume, amongst the poetical republications. Note (f), page 25. And he whose cup of joy ran o'er- Rev. G. GLASSE, who, in describing the misery which befel his family from his house having fallen down at Hanwell, and many other severe misfortunes that preceded the yet greater calamity mentioned in these Verses, observed-" All these sorrows have been heaped ́upon me, in order, no doubt, to prune the over-luxuriance of prosperity, that had known but little interruption; in order, I trust, to make me wiser and better to harrow up the soul, as Ogden beautifully has it, in order to make it capable of producing the seeds of virtue." Note (g), page 26. Nor yet to yonder laurell'd Sage Rev. Mr. POTTER; a notice of whose recent death, and a tribute to whose memory, will be seen, in the beginning of the Poem of “ Sympathy," in close of the Harvest-Home. * Now in his ninety-third year. THE |