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INSCRIBED TO THE REV W HOWLEY	A
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The morning wakes in shadowy mantle gray	B
The darksome woods their glimmering skirts unfold	C
Prone from the cliff the falcon wheels her way	B
And long and loud the bell's slow chime is tolled	C
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The reddening light gains fast upon the skies	D
And far away the glistening vapours sail	E
Down the rough steep the accustomed hedger hies	D
And the stream winds in brightness through the vale	E
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Mark how those riven rocks on either shore	F
Uplift their bleak and furrowed fronts on high	G
How proudly desolate their foreheads hoar	F
That meet the earliest sunbeams of the sky	G
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Bound for yon dusky mart with pennants gay	B
The tall bark on the winding water's line	H
Between the riven cliffs slow plies her way	B
And peering on the sight the white sails shine	H
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Alas for those by drooping sickness worn	I
Who now come forth to meet the cheering ray	B
And feel the fragrance of the tepid morn	I
Round their torn breasts and throbbing temples play	B
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Perhaps they muse with a desponding sigh	G
On the cold vault that shall their bones inurn	I
Whilst every breeze seems as it whispers by	G
To breathe of comfort never to return	I
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Yet oft as sadly thronging dreams arise	D
Awhile forgetful of their pain they gaze	D
A transient lustre lights their faded eyes	D
And o'er their cheek the tender hectic plays	D
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The purple morn that paints with sidelong gleam	J
The cliff's tall crest the waving woods that ring	K
With songs of birds rejoicing in the beam	J
Touch soft the wakeful nerve's according string	K
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Then at sad Meditation's silent hour	L
A thousand wishes steal upon the heart	M
And whilst they meekly bend to Heaven's high power	L
Ah think 'tis hard 'tis surely hard to part	M
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To part from every hope that brought delight	N
From those that loved them those they loved so much	O
Then Fancy swells the picture on the sight	N
And softens every scene at every touch	O
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Sweet as the mellowed woods beneath the moon	I
Remembrance lends her soft uniting shades	D
'Some natural tears she drops but wipes them soon '	-
The world retires and its dim prospect fades	D
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Airs of delight that soothe the aching sense	D
Waters of health that through yon caverns glide	P
Oh kindly yet your healing powers dispense	D
And bring back feeble life's exhausted tide	P
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Perhaps to these gray rocks and mazy springs	D
Some heart may come warmed with the purest fire	L
For whom bright Fancy plumes her radiant wings	D
And warbling Muses wake the lonely lyre	Q
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Some orphan Maid deceived in early youth	R
Pale o'er yon spring may hang in mute distress	D
Who dream of faith of happiness and truth	R
Of love that Virtue would protect and bless	D
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Some musing Youth in silence there may bend	S
Untimely stricken by sharp Sorrow's dart	M
For friendship formed yet left without a friend	S
And bearing still the arrow at his heart	M
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Such was lamented RUSSELL'S early doom	T
The gay companion of our stripling prime	U
Ev'n so he sank unwept into the tomb	T
And o'er his head closed the dark gulph of time	U
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Hither he came a wan and weary guest	V
A softening balm for many a wound to crave	W
And wooed the sunshine to his aching breast	V
Which now seems smiling on his verdant grave	W
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He heard the whispering winds that now I hear	X
As boding much along these hills he passed	Y
Yet ah how mournful did they meet his ear	X
On that sad morn he heard them for the last	Y
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So sinks the scene like a departed dream	J
Since late we sojourned blythe in Wykeham's bowers	D
Or heard the merry bells by Isis' stream	J
And thought our way was strewed with fairy flowers	D
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Of those with whom we played upon the lawn	I
Of early life in the fresh morning played	Z
Alas how many since that vernal dawn	I
Like thee poor RUSSELL 'neath the turf are laid	Z
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Joyous a while they wandered hand in hand	A2
By friendship led along the springtide plain	I
How oft did Fancy wake her transports bland	A2
And on the lids the glistening tear detain	I
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I yet survive now musing other song	B2
Than that which early pleased my vacant years	D
Thinking how days and hours have passed along	B2
Marked by much pleasure some and some by tears	D
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Thankful that to these verdant scenes I owe	C2
That he whom late I saw all drooping pale	E
Raised from the couch of sickness and of woe	C2
Now lives with me these mantling views to hail	E
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Thankful that still the landscape beaming bright	N
Of pendant mountain or of woodland gray	B
Can wake the wonted sense of pure delight	N
And charm a while my solitary way	B
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Enough through the high heaven the proud sun rides	D
My wandering steps their silent path pursue	D
Back to the crowded world where fortune guides	D
Clifton to thy white rocks and woods adieu	D

William Lisle Bowles

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