Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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ON A PAINTING. |
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ON A PAINTING.
Hail! blessed Art, which pour'st the bright sunbeamUpon my sight, when clouds are thick in heaven,
Like flocks, before the sheepherd Southwind driven
To pasture on grey mountaintops: a dream
Of Summerloveliness I see: that stream
Which thro' the rocks his foaming path has riven,
To which a few brief pencilstrokes have given
The Marks of age's workings, by the gleam
Of the sunset is flushed: and, gorgeous Sight!
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With humid glory, while the dewdrops bright
Speak of a passing shower: o'er a fair
And gentle slope with woods and pastures dight,
Foldwards the nibbling sheep Eve's dewy star doth light.
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