Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos. By C. Dibdin, the Younger |
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SYMPATHY.
The screech owl I hate who is ever complaining,
Too selfish his part of life's troubles to bear;
But the soft subdued mourner 'twere cruel arraigning,
Who looks for compassion, to banish despair;
Whose sigh never heaves to give pain to another,
But ease to the poor breaking heart to ensure;
And 'tis but a duty, from brother to brother,
To hear sorrow with kindness, tho' failing to cure.
Too selfish his part of life's troubles to bear;
But the soft subdued mourner 'twere cruel arraigning,
Who looks for compassion, to banish despair;
Whose sigh never heaves to give pain to another,
But ease to the poor breaking heart to ensure;
And 'tis but a duty, from brother to brother,
To hear sorrow with kindness, tho' failing to cure.
Who suffers in silence the pang that destroys him
Best copies the hero, that fondling of fame;
But he who confesses the pang that annoys him
To a title more noble than hero lays claim:
To the social name man—'twere ungen'rous to smother
His sorrow, and fancy compassion is coy;
For sure 'tis a duty, from brother to brother,
Tolet those share our grief who have claims on our joy.
Best copies the hero, that fondling of fame;
But he who confesses the pang that annoys him
To a title more noble than hero lays claim:
To the social name man—'twere ungen'rous to smother
His sorrow, and fancy compassion is coy;
For sure 'tis a duty, from brother to brother,
Tolet those share our grief who have claims on our joy.
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