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The poetical works of William Lisle Bowles

... with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan
Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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VOL. I.
  
[dedication]
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SONNETS, ETC.
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THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA:
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THE MISSIONARY.
  
INTRODUCTION.
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CANTO FIRST. One Day and Part of Night.
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CANTO SECOND. The Second Day
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CANTO THIRD.
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CANTO FOURTH.
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CANTO FIFTH.
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CANTO SIXTH.
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CANTO SEVENTH.
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CANTO EIGHTH.
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VOL. II.

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TO A FRIEND.

Go, then, and join the murmuring city's throng!
Me thou dost leave to solitude and tears;
To busy phantasies, and boding fears,
Lest ill betide thee; but 't will not be long
Ere the hard season shall be past; till then
Live happy; sometimes the forsaken shade
Remembering, and these trees now left to fade;
Nor, 'mid the busy scenes and hum of men,
Wilt thou my cares forget: in heaviness
To me the hours shall roll, weary and slow,
Till mournful autumn past, and all the snow
Of winter pale, the glad hour I shall bless
That shall restore thee from the crowd again,
To the green hamlet on the peaceful plain.
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