Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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POVERTY.
Giver of hidden gifts! sweet Poverty,Heartchastener, yet in Love: tho' thou art one
That walk'st on Earth unwelcom'd, and men shun
Thy face of veilëd beauty, where we see
But a faintraying glory, as may be
Starlight thro' mists, which seem as tho' they shone
Dimeyed on this cold Earth, where Care has run
With Sin his Rounds, mocking Man's hollow Glee
And lipconstrainëd mirth, yet thou, like these,
Art bright beneath as Truth: the filmy Veil
Which dims, is on the Eye alone that sees
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'Tis not the curse that dulls the Bed of Ease,
The worn Heart, the Affections false and stale!
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