The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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FROM MILTON's EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS.
TRANSLATION.
O where may I expect relief?What faithful breast will sooth my grief?
Whom may I, undisguised, show
The secret source of every woe?
Whose easy converse will remove,
By tales of Poetry and Love,
Of wintry skies the gloomy power,
And laugh away the evening hour!
While, around the blazing hearth,
Crackling the nut inspireth mirth;
And at the fire the roasting pear
Hissing dissipates each care:
But without an angry cloud,
Borne by the sweeping winds aloud,
Thunders with unrelenting stroke
Upon my friendly sheltering oak.
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