The Harp of Erin Containing the Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Dermody. In Two Volumes |
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HYMN TO SHAKSPEARE. |
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HYMN TO SHAKSPEARE.
Sweet offspring of nature, soft rebel to art,Whom Fancy gave passions, and Pity a heart,
From thine Avon repair on the wings of delight,
And gild with thy glories the horrors of night.
Thy Ariel will light up his glow-worms, to shew
Thy rapturous path to a mortal below;
Thy Ob'ron will bid all his small subjects fly,
And revel and trip to the glance of thine eye;
While the weird sisters vanish from off the wild heath,
And cowslips and eglantines spring forth beneath.
The moon shall delay to illumine the East,
And thy glad inspiration reign full o'er my breast:
My breast that shall glow with pure thoughts evermore.
And the secrets of feeling, of laughter, explore;
Pour joy o'er the earth, if envigour'd by thee,
And pay every rite to thy mulberry-tree.
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