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To her Grace the Duchess of HAMILTON, on her recovery from childbed, after the birth of the MARQUIS of CLYDESDALE.
By the same.
Hail! Nature's loveliest work and darling care,
Whose worth and beauty equal praises claim,
Form'd Heav'n's supreme beneficence to share,
A nation's wonder, and a mother's name.
Whose worth and beauty equal praises claim,
Form'd Heav'n's supreme beneficence to share,
A nation's wonder, and a mother's name.
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No venal muse with mercenary praise,
Insults thy taste, or wounds thy modest ear;
When Heav'n, or heav'nly beauty prompts her lays,
As high the theme, the tribute flows sincere.
Insults thy taste, or wounds thy modest ear;
When Heav'n, or heav'nly beauty prompts her lays,
As high the theme, the tribute flows sincere.
Bless'd be the hours, which, with auspicious flight,
Restore thy former health and native bloom;
To bid the wishing world its eyes delight,
And Fame, with all her mouths, thy praise resume.
Restore thy former health and native bloom;
To bid the wishing world its eyes delight,
And Fame, with all her mouths, thy praise resume.
O may the infant product of thy pain,
Beyond a mother's wish to greatness rise;
The cloudless glories of his race sustain,
On earth belov'd, and honour'd in the skies.
Beyond a mother's wish to greatness rise;
The cloudless glories of his race sustain,
On earth belov'd, and honour'd in the skies.
Fraught with the richest, noblest gifts of fate,
Serenely gay may all thy moments roll;
To crown thy days let ev'ry pleasure wait,
Bright as thy charms, and spotless as thy soul.
Serenely gay may all thy moments roll;
To crown thy days let ev'ry pleasure wait,
Bright as thy charms, and spotless as thy soul.
| A collection of original poems | |