Poems original and translated By John Herman Merivale ... A new and corrected edition with some additional pieces |
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SONNET I.
Yon party zealot, ignorant as warm,Has taunted me with change—a charge untrue.
I ne'er was one with that deceitful crew,
Who mean Destruction when they roar “Reform;”
My purpose ever to prevent the storm
'Tis theirs to excite. The wholesome air I drew
With my first breath was Loyalty. I grew
In childhood reverence of her sacred form:
And, as she beam'd upon my youthful eye,
Link'd with her mountain sister Liberty,
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My love and worship; and so made me shun
The fellowship of those who madly try
To rend asunder what heaven join'd in one.
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