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Nugae Canorae

Poems by Charles Lloyd ... Third Edition, with Additions

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SONNET LXIV. The same subject continued.

Written 15th November, 1811.
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The following Sonnet was written after having finished, in Westmoreland, a translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid into English verse, which the Author began six years before in Warwickshire; and in order to facilitate the performance of which his brother kindly lent him the use of an apartment in his house, as being in a situation less interrupted by noise than the one in which he was stationed.

This morn as dismal as the dismal theme,
Which weighs my bosom when I think on thee:
This morning shrouded in obscurity
Of winds, and blustering rain, and vapours dim;
This morn, with weary eye, and languid limb,
The task is done of mimic poesy.
To whom, dear friend, to whose kind sympathy,
When in my breast first stirred the wayward whim,

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Can I ascribe assistance?—Thou art gone!—
Thou first whene'er my frail and suffering mind
Some effort made, with sweetness all thy own,
And flattering promptitude most bland and kind,
To gratulate my toils of little worth!—
Thou last to blame!—Thou first to hail their birth!