 Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! SAMUEL ROGERS.  Poems - Page 44by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
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...call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy...frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp oif Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her... | |
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