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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ON THE SAME.
[If unaffected manners, plain good sense]
If unaffected manners, plain good sense,
Kindness of heart and true benevolence
United, ever grac'd a matron's tomb;
Hither, ye antient Virgins, hither come!
Spleen, bigotry, ill-nature, left behind,
Form from this glass the features of your mind.
Kindness of heart and true benevolence
United, ever grac'd a matron's tomb;
Hither, ye antient Virgins, hither come!
Spleen, bigotry, ill-nature, left behind,
Form from this glass the features of your mind.
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Sour'd by no disappointed hopes of youth
The wounds she could not heal she still would sooth:
In the hot pulse of youth when fevers rage,
Where penury chills the bed of palsied age,
Far as the village round her hamlets spread,
Far as her power her bounty round was shed
The cordial blessing of th'industrious poor,
A richer offering to the Heav'ns she bore,
Than regal pomp or mitred pride e'er gave
Or at the font, the altar, or the grave.
The wounds she could not heal she still would sooth:
In the hot pulse of youth when fevers rage,
Where penury chills the bed of palsied age,
Far as the village round her hamlets spread,
Far as her power her bounty round was shed
The cordial blessing of th'industrious poor,
A richer offering to the Heav'ns she bore,
Than regal pomp or mitred pride e'er gave
Or at the font, the altar, or the grave.
Know then, and prove this sacred truth! to Bless
Is present, and is future Happiness.
Is present, and is future Happiness.
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