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Mortal who armed with holy fortitude	A
The path of good right onward hast pursued	A
May HE to whose eternal throne on high	B
The sufferers of the earth with anguish cry	B
Be thy protector On that dreary road	C
That leads thee patient to the last abode	C
Of wretchedness in peril and in pain	D
May HE thy steps direct thy heart sustain	D
'Mid scenes where pestilence in darkness flies	E
In caverns where deserted misery lies	E
So safe beneath His shadow thou may'st go	F
To cheer the dismal wastes of human woe	F
O CHARITY our helpless nature's pride	G
Thou friend to him who knows no friend beside	G
Is there in morning's breath or the sweet gale	H
That steals o'er the tired pilgrim of the vale	H
Cheering with fragrance fresh his weary frame	I
Aught like the incense of thy sacred flame	I
Is aught in all the beauties that adorn	J
The azure heaven or purple lights of morn	J
Is aught so fair in evening's lingering gleam	K
As from thine eye the meek and pensive beam	K
That falls like saddest moonlight on the hill	L
And distant grove when the wide world is still	L
Thine are the ample views that unconfined	M
Stretch to the utmost walks of human kind	M
Thine is the spirit that with widest plan	N
Brother to brother binds and man to man	N
But who for thee O Charity will bear	O
Hardship and cope with peril and with care	O
Who for thy sake will social sweets forego	F
For scenes of sickness and the sights of woe	F
Who for thy sake will seek the prison's gloom	P
Where ghastly Guilt implores her lingering doom	P
Where Penitence unpitied sits and pale	H
That never told to human ears her tale	H
Where Agony half famished cries in vain	D
Where dark Despondence murmurs o'er her chain	D
Where gaunt Disease is wasted to the bone	Q
And hollow eyed Despair forgets to groan	Q
Approving Mercy marks the vast design	R
And proudly cries HOWARD the task be thine	R
Already 'mid the darksome vaults profound	S
The inner prison deep beneath the ground	S
Consoling hath thy tender look appeared	T
In horror's realm the voice of peace is heard	U
Be the sad scene disclosed fearless unfold	V
The grating door the inmost cell behold	V
Thought shrinks from the dread sight the paly lamp	W
Burns faint amid the infectious vapours damp	W
Beneath its light full many a livid mien	X
And haggard eye ball through the dusk are seen	X
In thought I see thee at each hollow sound	S
With humid lids oft anxious gaze around	S
But oh for him who to yon vault confined	M
Has bid a long farewell to human kind	M
His wasted form his cold and bloodless cheek	Y
A tale of sadder sorrow seem to speak	Y
Of friends perhaps now mingled with the dead	Z
Of hope that like a faithless flatterer fled	Z
In the utmost hour of need or of a son	A2
Cast to the bleak world's mercy or of one	A2
Whose heart was broken when the stern behest	B2
Tore him from pale affection's bleeding breast	B2
Despairing from his cold and flinty bed	Z
With fearful muttering he has raised his head	Z
What pitying spirit what unwonted guest	B2
Strays to this last retreat these shades unblest	B2
From life and light shut out beneath this cell	C2
Long have I bid the cheering sun farewell	C2
I heard for ever closed the jealous door	D2
I marked my bed on the forsaken floor	D2
I had no hope on earth no human friend	B2
Let me unpitied to the dust descend	B2
Cold is his frozen heart his eye is reared	B2
To Heaven no more and on his sable beard	B2
The tear has ceased to fall Thou canst not bring	E2
Back to his mournful heart the morn of spring	E2
Thou canst not bid the rose of health renew	F2
Upon his wasted cheek its crimson hue	F2
But at thy look ere yet to hate resigned	B2
He murmurs his last curses on mankind	B2
At thy kind look one tender thought shall rise	E
And his full soul shall thank thee ere he dies	E
Oh ye who list to Pleasure's vacant song	G2
As in her silken train ye troop along	G2
Who like rank cowards from affliction fly	B
Or whilst the precious hours of life pass by	B
Lie slumbering in the sun Awake arise	E
To these instructive pictures turn your eyes	E
The awful view with other feelings scan	N
And learn from HOWARD what man owes to man	N
These Virtue are thy triumphs that adorn	J
Fitliest our nature and bespeak us born	J
For loftier action not to gaze and run	A2
From clime to clime nor flutter in the sun	A2
Dragging a droning flight from flower to flower	H2
Like summer insects in a gaudy hour	H2
Nor yet o'er love sick tales with fancy range	I2
And cry 'Tis pitiful 'tis wondrous strange	I2
But on life's varied views to look around	B2
And raise expiring sorrow from the ground	B2
And he who thus has borne his part assigned	B2
In the sad fellowship of human kind	B2
Or for a moment soothed the bitter pain	D
Of a poor brother has not lived in vain	D
But 'tis not that Compassion should bestow	B2
An unavailing tear on want or woe	B2
Lo fairer Order rises from thy plan	N
Befriending virtue and adorning man	N
That Comfort cheers the dark abode of pain	D
Where wan Disease prayed for relief in vain	D
That Mercy soothes the hard behest of law	J2
That Misery smiles upon her bed of straw	J2
That the dark felon's clan no more combined	B2
Murmur in murderous leagues against mankind	B2
That to each cell a mild yet mournful guest	B2
Contrition comes and calms the laboring breast	B2
Whilst long forgotten tears of virtue flow	B2
Thou generous friend of all to thee we owe	B2
To thee that Pity sees her views expand	B2
To many a cheerless haunt and distant land	B2
Whilst warm Philanthropy extends her ray	K2
Wide as the world and general as the day	K2
HOWARD I view those deeds and think how vain	D
The triumphs of weak man the feeble strain	D
That Flattery brings to Conquest's crimson car	L2
Amid the bannered host and the proud tents of war	D2
From realm to realm the hideous War fiend hies	E
Wide o'er the wasted earth before him flies	E
Affright on pinions fleeter than the wind	B2
Whilst Death and Desolation fast behind	B2
The havoc of his echoing march pursue	E
Meantime his steps are bathed in the warm dew	E
Of bloodshed and of tears but his dread name	I
Shall perish the loud clarion of his fame	I
One day shall cease and wrapt in hideous gloom	P
Forgetfulness bestride his shapeless tomb	P
But bear thou fearless on the God of all	M2
To whom the afflicted kneel the friendless call	M2
From His high throne of mercy shall approve	N2
The holy deeds of Mercy and of Love	O2
For when the vanities of life's brief day	K2
Oblivion's hurrying wing shall sweep away	K2
Each act by Charity and Mercy done	A2
High o'er the wrecks of time shall live alone	Q
Immortal as the heavens and beauteous bloom	P
To other worlds and realms beyond the tomb	P

William Lisle Bowles

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