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The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Edited by Thomas Aird: With A Memoir of the Author
Moir, D. M. (1798-1851)
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VOL. II.
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OCCASIONAL POEMS.
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SONNETS.
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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK.
  
MOONLIGHT CHURCHYARD.
  
TO WORDSWORTH.
  
TO THE MUSE OF MILTON.
  
RURAL SCENERY.
  
CRICHTON CHAPEL.
  
WINTER.
  
THE SCOTTISH SABBATH.
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POEMS IN REFERENCE TO CHILDHOOD.
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ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY.
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SONGS.
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BALLADS.
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TALES.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

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TO THE MUSE OF MILTON.

Far from this visible diurnal sphere,
Immortal Spirit, it was thine to stray,
And, bending towards the sun thy proud career,
Dip thy white plumage in the font of day;
Time, marvelling at thy course, beheld thee leave
His confines—overlook, with steadfast eye,
The ungirdled regions of Eternity—
And through the waste wide Empyrean cleave—
Darting with sheer descent the caves amid
Of Night chaotic, downwards to the abyss
Of Death and Darkness, where the Furies hiss,
And Hope from wretched souls is ever hid;—
Heaven, Hell, and Earth thy theme—a scene of bliss
The last, ere Sin the Elysian charm undid.
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