Poetical works of the late F. Sayers to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor |
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SONNET.
[In vain doth Grandeur, trick'd in gorgeous pall]
In vain doth Grandeur, trick'd in gorgeous pall,Stalk stately by, and point to glittering joys;
In vain doth Mammon spread his gilded toys,
To lure a careless wight to bitter thrall;
In vain doth loudly-laughing Pleasure call
To loose delights and days of mirthful noise;
Hence, hated fiends!—me gentle Peace accoys;
Her cup is heavenly sweet, undash'd with gall;
Yblest in her, with slow and secret tread,
I wander, loitering, in the arched grove,
Fancy's gay dreams aye dancing round my head;
There jolly elves at midnight nimbly move
Their dainty feet; and shades of mighty dead
Glide pale across my path. Such scenes the muses love.
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