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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FRAGMENT,
The First Stanza of an Ode anticipated for the Birth-day 1786.
What will the new Laureate say,To celebrate this Holiday?
Let us, my Muse, anticipate the strain!
For if the matter be as plain
As is the common church-yard way,
Trodden alike by all the Parish Throng,
The merry Damsels that go trippingly,
And him so leaden-footed, the dull Swain,
Lounging and loitering lazily along),
Then can't we miss;—or if it be as high
As those aye-burning Gems that beautify
The Veil of Heav'n, We also claim
A kindred with the Sky,
And rightful entrance in the Courts of Jove,
To sit and listen what the Gods rehearse
Of Destiny and Chance, and things above
The course of earthly wisdom; thence to frame
A Tale divine in high immortal Verse. [OMITTED]
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