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Not only men of stormy minds	A
The storms of trouble know	B
All creatures of this earth must find	C
A share of earthly woe	B
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Ye whose pure hearts with pity swell	D
For pain by all incurr'd	E
Hear how affliction once befell	D
Serenity's sweet bird	E
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Ye fair who in your carols praise	F
The Halcyon's happy state	G
Hear in compassionate amaze	F
One Halcyon's hapless fate	G
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A nymph Selina is her name	H
Lovely in mind and mien	I
When spring however early came	H
Was fond of walks marine	I
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Between a woman and a child	J
In tender charms she grew	K
And lov'd with fancy sweetly wild	J
The lonely shore to view	K
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Nature she studied every spring	L
To all her offspring kind	C
And taught the birds of wildest wing	L
To trust her gentle mind	C
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Now brilliant in her youthful eye	M
The Halcyon's feathers flame	H
She wish'd a pair of these tho' shy	M
Affectionately tame	H
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Nor wish'd she long for such her care	N
Such her attractive skill	O
She makes e'en rovers of the air	N
Attentive to her will	O
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When stormy March had ceas'd to roar	P
Selina joy'd to rove	Q
And watch a Halcyon on the shore	P
Within a little cove	Q
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Familiariz'd by slow degrees	R
They met in friendly mood	S
'Till her bright favourite on her knees	R
Would perch for offer'd food	S
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How joyous was Selina's breast	T
When thus she had prevail'd	U
Each coming of her radiant guest	T
How tenderly she hail'd	U
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It seem'd her guest so frequent here	V
The damsel us'd to roam	W
And deem'd this little cove so dear	X
Her palace and her home	W
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When April's sun the coast had warm'd	Y
New joy the nymph possest	Y
She saw her favourite bird had form'd	Y
A curious downy nest	Y
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How did her tender heart rejoice	Z
What prayers she then preferred	Y
That she might with her tuneful voice	Z
Delight the brooding bird	Y
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Gay nature smil'd the prayer she blest	Y
Selina softly sung	A2
And felt delight of higher zest	Y
She nurst the callow young	A2
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But Oh when human pleasures rise	B2
To enviable height	Y
How subtly dark misfortune flies	B2
To crush them in her flight	Y
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One morn as nigh the cove so dear	X
The quick Selina came	H
A sight which caus'd her grievous fear	X
Convuls'd her tender frame	H
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Near it she draws but entrance there	N
A swelling sea denies	B2
For hostile to her callow care	N
The cruel waters rise	B2
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Close to this cove's contracted side	Y
Three massive stones were laid	Y
Oft in bare sand now scarce descried	Y
Fresh surges round them play'd	Y
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To one the nearest to the cell	D
Alarm'd Selina wades	C2
To mark how far the wild wave's swell	D
Her darling cove invades	C2
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Behold she kneels with folded hands	D2
Kneels on the rugged stone	E2
Whence now her anxious eye commands	D2
The cell once deem'd her own	E2
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How keen her anguish to survey	F2
The tide fill half the cove	Q
Forth from its seat with savage sway	F2
Her Halcyon's nest it drove	Q
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The nest now floats and from the shore	P
The tortur'd parent sprung	A2
With wildest terror hovers o'er	G2
And shrieks around her young	A2
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Selina marks the barbarous sea	H2
The leaky nest divide	Y
And bold her little friends to free	H2
She plunges in the tide	Y
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The tender sinking tribe she caught	Y
But ah she caught too late	Y
More rapid than her generous thought	Y
Was unrelenting fate	Y
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In vain with tender pity's clasp	I2
To her warm breast she holds	J2
The young whom death's remorseless grasp	I2
In his dark shade infolds	J2
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Off flew the parent in despair	N
Her heart appears to burn	K2
Nor can the sympathetic fair	N
Persuade her to return	K2
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She bearing in her robe the dead	Y
The parent calls anew	K
'Till rising rocks that near them spread	Y
Conceals her from the view	K
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Here she despairing now to heal	L2
The wretched parent's pain	M2
Sat on a rock in sorrowing zeal	L2
And kiss'd the dead again	N2
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Her tender nerves confess'd a shock	O2
To hear a sudden gun	P2
A smuggler's vessel from the rock	O2
She now perceives to run	P2
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But with what grief the sound she heard	Y
How pants her heart with dread	Y
As she beholds her favourite bird	Y
Now fluttering o'er her head	Y
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That flutter is the gasp of death	Q2
As conscious of it's nest	Y
It breathes to her its parting breath	Q2
And falls upon her breast	Y
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Weep not sweet nymph with vain regret	Y
Your favourite's lifeless state	Y
But rather think that it has met	Y
An enviable fate	Y
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Yes to this gentle bird indeed	Y
It's mercy Heaven has shewn	P2
And in it's end you now may read	Y
An emblem of your own	P2
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When you dear nymph have suffer'd all	R2
Your share of earthly woe	B
O may that portion be as small	R2
As mortal e'er may know	B
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Close in a death like infant's rest	Y
Those heaven reflecting eyes	J2
And dropping on an angel's breast	Y
Be wafted to the skies	J2

William Hayley

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