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Southey high placed on the contested throne	A
Of modern verse a Muse herself unknown	A
Sues that her tears may consecrate the strains	B
Pour'd o'er the urn enrich'd with WHITE'S Remains	B
While touch'd to transport Taste's responding tone	A
Makes the rapt poet's ecstasies thine own	A
Ah think that he whose hand supremely skill'd	C
The heart's fine chords with deep vibration thrill'd	C
In stagnant silence and petrific gloom	D
Unconscious sleeps the tenant of the tomb	D
Extinct that spirit whose strong bidding drew	E
From Fancy's confines Wonder's wild eyed crew	E
Which bade Despair's terrific phantoms pass	F
Like Macbeth's monarchs in the mystic glass	F
Before the youthful bard's impassion'd eye	G
Like him led on to triumph and to die	G
Like him by mighty magic compass'd round	H
And seeking sceptres on enchanted ground	H
Such spells invest such blear illusion waits	I
The trav'ller bound for Fame's receding gates	I
Delusive splendours gild the proud abode	J
But lurking demons haunt th' alluring road	J
There gaunt eyed Want asserts her iron reign	K
There as in vengeance of the world's disdain	K
This half flesh'd hag midst Wit's bright blossoms stalks	L
And breathing winter withers where she walks	L
Though there long outlaw'd desp'rate with disgrace	M
Invidious Dulness wields the critic mace	M
And sworn in hate exerts his ruffian might	N
Where'er young genius meditates his flight	N
Erewhile when WHITE by this fell fiend oppress'd	O
Felt Hope's fine fervours languish in his breast	O
When shrunk with scorn and trembling to aspire	P
He dropp'd desponding his insulted lyre	P
Alert in zeal with art benigh endued	Q
SOUTHEY thy hand his blasted strength renew'd	Q
And lured him on his labours scarce begun	R
To win those laurels which thyself had won	R
In vain though vivified with pristine force	S
O'er learning's realms he shot with meteor course	S
To worth relentless Fate's despotic frown	T
Scowl'd in the bright perspective of renown	T
Timeless he falls in Death's pale triumph led	U
And his first laurels shade his grassy bed	U
So sinks the Muse's offspring doom'd to try	G
Like a caged eagle panting tow'rds the sky	G
A foil'd ascent while adverse fortune flings	V
Her strong link'd meshes o'er his flutt'ring wings	V
Sinks while exalted Ignorance supine	W
Unheeded slumbers like the pamper'd swine	W
Obsequious slaves in his voluptuous bowers	X
Young pleasures warble while the dancing Hours	X
In sickly sweetness languishingly move	Y
Like new waked virgins flush'd with dreams of love	Z
Him when by Death's dark angel swept away	A2
From sloth's embrace in premature decay	A2
Surviving friends donation'd into grief	B2
Shall mourn with anguish audible and brief	B2
And pander bards ring round in goodly chime	C2
His liberal heart high wit and soul sublime	C2
But Flattery's frauds impartial Time disowns	X
Funereal pomp and adulative tones	X
Slow where she moves through monumental aisles	X
With stern contempt insulted Reason smiles	X
While Falsehood shrined above th' emblazon'd palls	X
Shames sanctity from consecrated walls	X
She seeks with pensive step and saintly eyes	X
Some lonely grave where rude the grass tufts rise	X
Nor sculptured angels tell nor chisell'd lines	X
There slumbers CHATTERTON here WHITE reclines	X
But nobler triumphs WHITE'S probation claims	X
Than ever blazon'd Wit's recorded names	X
For Virtue's sons to bliss immortal born	D2
Tower to their native heaven and view with scorn	D2
The vain distinction of the trophied sod	E2
'Tis theirs to gain distinction with their God	E2

Thomas Gent

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