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Kind Heaven will oft a lesson give	A
If mortals are inclined to learn	B
To shew how simplest things that live	C
To kindness make a rich return	B
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Tho' fiction speaks of dying notes	D
Sung by the swan in death resign'd	E
Is there a tribe that flies or floats	D
Of sense or feeling less refin'd	E
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Yet simple as this bird we deem	F
My faithful ballad shall attest	G
One Swan displayed on Thames's stream	F
A feeling and a friendly breast	G
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Cecilia liv'd on Thames's bank	H
A young and lovely married fair	I
To creatures kind of every rank	H
A favourite Swan had own'd her care	I
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Her lord a merchant frank and young	J
By probity was known to thrive	C
Their bliss enliven'd every tongue	J
They were the happiest pair alive	C
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For to increase their nuptial joy	K
And their domestic scene adorn	L
Heaven crown'd their blessings with a boy	K
A finer boy was never born	L
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His sportive life had only run	M
To six short months how brief a date	N
When gay Cecilia's darling son	M
Was threaten'd with a deadly fate	N
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Her garden had a terrace fair	I
Beneath it full the river flow'd	O
There she enjoyed the evening air	I
Her favourite Swan there proudly row'd	O
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The mother in her active arms	P
To make her boy benignly mild	Q
And nobly proof 'gainst all alarms	P
There oft would exercise her child	Q
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A boat house by the terrace side	R
Shelter'd a small and simple boat	S
And sometimes half way o'er the tide	R
Chain'd to its home it us'd to float	S
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Here she her infant and her maid	T
Sport with the Swan and give it bread	U
While her gay boy of nought afraid	T
With lively transport sees it fed	U
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'Tis June a sultry tempest wild	Q
Impends Cecilia would retire	V
But checks herself to teach her child	Q
The vivid light'ning to admire	V
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Her noble mind delights to rear	W
In early fortitude her boy	K
That he the voice of God may hear	X
With admiration's awful joy	K
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While to regain the vessel's shed	U
Her maid an active pilot stands	Y
She to the music o'er her head	U
Dances the child with dauntless hands	Y
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But whirlwinds rise the vessel reel'd	Z
Heaven the sweet parent is o'erthrown	M
Her falling head she fails to shield	Z
Attentive to her child alone	M
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Tis the tornado's ruthless blast	A2
The mother stunn'd the babe it bears	B2
Far from her senseless frame aghast	A2
The maid in speechless horror glares	B2
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Yet swiftly to its proper shore	C2
The whirlwind now the vessel drives	D2
Where by the elemental roar	C2
Alarm'd Cecilia's lord arrives	D2
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Into the boat behold him bound	E2
He lifts his lifeless wife upright	F2
She wakens to the thunder's sound	E2
Her opening eyes regain the light	F2
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Where is my child she faintly cries	G2
Where is the child her lord rejoin'd	H2
Poor heart struck Susan nought replies	G2
The child had vanished from her mind	E
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My child my child with terror's start	I2
She shrieks in accents wild and shrill	J2
And at her agony of heart	I2
The very tempest's self grew still	J2
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Say if you saw him sink she cried	R
Wildly to Susan pale and wan	M
When quick her roving eye descried	R
The tall neck of her favourite Swan	M
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My God my God 'tis thee I thank	H
Exclaim'd the now exulting fair	I
I see him wafted to the bank	H
His cradle form'd by heavenly care	I
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She spoke and all who heard her cry	K2
Now saw the babe divinely nurst	R
The extatic sight from every eye	K2
Made tears of grateful transport burst	R
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Between her silvery arching wings	L2
The guardian bird had lodg'd the child	R
And forward as her broad foot springs	L2
At every stroke the infant smil'd	R
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And with a heaven implanted pride	R
Superbly rowing now to land	R
The brave bird has her charge denied	R
To all but to the mother's hand	R
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Cecilia feeling now no pains	M2
Leans o'er the boat's advancing end	R
And aided by her lord reclaims	M2
The present of her feather'd friend	R
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Now with delight the rescued boy	K
To her maternal bosom springs	M2
The conscious Swan partakes their joy	K
And claps her proud triumphant wings	M2
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Cecilia beads to weep and pray	N2
She weeps with joy no longer wan	M
And still on this returning day	N2
Blesses the heaven directed Swan	M

William Hayley

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