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Those breathing Tokens of your kind regard	A
Suspect not Anna that their fate is hard	A
Not soon does aught to which mild fancies cling	B
In lonely spots become a slighted thing	B
Those silent Inmates now no longer share	C
Nor do they need our hospitable care	C
Removed in kindness from their glassy Cell	D
To the fresh waters of a living Well	D
An elfin pool so sheltered that its rest	E
No winds disturb the mirror of whose breast	E
Is smooth as clear save where with dimples small	F
A fly may settle or a blossom fall	F
'There' swims of blazing sun and beating shower	G
Fearless but how obscured the golden Power	G
That from his bauble prison used to cast	H
Gleams by the richest jewel unsurpast	H
And near him darkling like a sullen Gnome	I
The silver Tenant of the crystal dome	I
Dissevered both from all the mysteries	J
Of hue and altering shape that charmed all eyes	K
Alas they pined they languished while they shone	L
And if not so what matters beauty gone	M
And admiration lost by change of place	N
That brings to the inward creature no disgrace	N
But if the change restore his birthright then	O
Whate'er the difference boundless is the gain	P
Who can divine what impulses from God	H
Reach the caged lark within a town abode	H
From his poor inch or two of daisied sod	H
O yield him back his privilege No sea	Q
Swells like the bosom of a man set free	Q
A wilderness is rich with liberty	Q
Roll on ye spouting whales who die or keep	R
Your independence in the fathomless Deep	R
Spread tiny nautilus the living sail	S
Dive at thy choice or brave the freshening gale	S
If unreproved the ambitious eagle mount	H
Sunward to seek the daylight in its fount	H
Bays gulfs and ocean's Indian width shall be	Q
Till the world perishes a field for thee	Q
While musing here I sit in shadow cool	T
And watch these mute Companions in the pool	T
Among reflected boughs of leafy trees	J
By glimpses caught disporting at their ease	J
Enlivened braced by hardy luxuries	J
I ask what warrant fixed them like a spell	D
Of witchcraft fixed them in the crystal cell	D
To wheel with languid motion round and round	H
Beautiful yet in mournful durance bound	H
Their peace perhaps our lightest footfall marred	H
On their quick sense our sweetest music jarred	H
And whither could they dart if seized with fear	U
No sheltering stone no tangled root was near	U
When fire or taper ceased to cheer the room	V
They wore away the night in starless gloom	V
And when the sun first dawned upon the streams	W
How faint their portion of his vital beams	W
Thus and unable to complain they fared	H
While not one joy of ours by them was shared	H
Is there a cherished bird I venture now	X
To snatch a sprig from Chaucer's reverend brow	X
Is there a brilliant fondling of the cage	Y
Though sure of plaudits on his costly stage	Y
Though fed with dainties from the snow white hand	H
Of a kind mistress fairest of the land	H
But gladly would escape and if need were	G
Scatter the colours from the plumes that bear	C
The emancipated captive through blithe air	C
Into strange woods where he at large may live	Z
On best or worst which they and Nature give	A2
The beetle loves his unpretending track	B2
The snail the house he carries on his back	B2
The far fetched worm with pleasure would disown	L
The bed we give him though of softest down	C2
A noble instinct in all kinds the same	D2
All ranks What Sovereign worthy of the name	D2
If doomed to breathe against his lawful will	E2
An element that flatters him to kill	E2
But would rejoice to barter outward show	F2
For the least boon that freedom can bestow	F2
But most the Bard is true to inborn right	H
Lark of the dawn and Philomel of night	H
Exults in freedom can with rapture vouch	G2
For the dear blessings of a lowly couch	G2
A natural meal days months from Nature's hand	H
Time place and business all at his command	H
Who bends to happier duties who more wise	K
Than the industrious Poet taught to prize	K
Above all grandeur a pure life uncrossed	H
By cares in which simplicity is lost	H
That life the flowery path that winds by stealth	H2
Which Horace needed for his spirit's health	H2
Sighed for in heart and genius overcome	I2
By noise and strife and questions wearisome	I2
And the vain splendours of Imperial Rome	I
Let easy mirth his social hours inspire	J2
And fiction animate his sportive lyre	J2
Attuned to verse that crowning light Distress	K2
With garlands cheats her into happiness	L2
Give 'me' the humblest note of those sad strains	M2
Drawn forth by pressure of his gilded chains	M2
As a chance sunbeam from his memory fell	D
Upon the Sabine farm he loved so well	D
Or when the prattle of Blandusia's spring	B
Haunted his ear he only listening	B
He proud to please above all rivals fit	H
To win the palm of gaiety and wit	H
He doubt not with involuntary dread	H
Shrinking from each new favour to be shed	H
By the world's Ruler on his honoured head	H
In a deep vision's intellectual scene	N2
Such earnest longings and regrets as keen	N2
Depressed the melancholy Cowley laid	H
Under a fancied yew tree's luckless shade	H
A doleful bower for penitential song	O2
Where Man and Muse complained of mutual wrong	O2
While Cam's ideal current glided by	P2
And antique towers nodded their foreheads high	P2
Citadels dear to studious privacy	Q
But Fortune who had long been used to sport	H
With this tried Servant of a thankless Court	H
Relenting met his wishes and to you	Q2
The remnant of his days at least was true	Q2
You whom though long deserted he loved best	H
You Muses books fields liberty and rest	H
Far happier they who fixing hope and aim	D2
On the humanities of peaceful fame	D2
Enter betimes with more than martial fire	G
The generous course aspire and still aspire	J2
Upheld by warnings heeded not too late	H
Stifle the contradictions of their fate	H
And to one purpose cleave their Being's godlike mate	H
Thus gifted Friend but with the placid brow	X
That woman ne'er should forfeit keep 'thy' vow	X
With modest scorn reject whate'er would blind	H
The ethereal eyesight cramp the winged mind	H
Then with a blessing granted from above	R2
To every act word thought and look of love	R2
Life's book for Thee may lie unclosed till age	Y
Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page	Y

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