Avolio ; a legend of the island of Cos With poems, lyrical, miscellaneous, and dramatic |
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DEDICATORY SONNET
TO EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, ESQ., OF BOSTON.
O Friend! between us, for long dreary years,Distance and Fate have raised their barriers strong;
Yet Love, surviving, takes the wings of Song,
And flies to greet thee; whatsoe'er appears
Of false or feeble in these various lays,
Forgive; the heart is in them, and to thee
The lowliest strains of true sincerity
Rise like the music of a voice of praise.
Though thou hast searched the souls of greatest Seers,
Shakespeare, and Spencer, Sidney,—to the core
Of their deep natures probing o'er and o'er,—
Still not the less to humbler bards are given
Thy faith and homage,—for the Poet's lore,
Or great or small, is knowledge caught from Heaven!
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