The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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GRATULATORY LINES,
Written and left upon the Road for a College Friend, (Then about Thirty Years of Age), Descriptive of a Morning in April on which he was married.
The morning lowr'd—nor, ere broad day,
Sung the dull lark his matin lay:
The storm o'erpast, I ride along:—
She greets me with her rapturous song.
Sung the dull lark his matin lay:
The storm o'erpast, I ride along:—
She greets me with her rapturous song.
Health and fair Fortune aye betide
The Bridegroom and the gentle Bride!
What tho', of Heav'n's prime Blessing lorn,
Monkish, ungenial rise the morn,
Sullen in clouds! yet ere mid-day
Timely fair Nature's Choir shall sing:
And timely heard, around, above,
The Voice of Harmony and Love
Brighten the unshed blooms of Spring,
And gild the Evening Ray.
The Bridegroom and the gentle Bride!
What tho', of Heav'n's prime Blessing lorn,
Monkish, ungenial rise the morn,
Sullen in clouds! yet ere mid-day
Timely fair Nature's Choir shall sing:
And timely heard, around, above,
The Voice of Harmony and Love
Brighten the unshed blooms of Spring,
And gild the Evening Ray.
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