Poems and miscellanies selected from the writings of Miss Eliza Townsend Printed but not published |
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THE DEAD BIRD.
Dear Bird, that late inspired the lay,Unnoticed shouldst thou pass away?
Whose life, whose death, excited here
Friendship's fond care and final tear?
No! to thy fate shall not refuse
Her dirge the moralizing muse,
Taught by thyself each changing moon,
To keep the voice in cheerful tune.
Through summer bright or winter hoar
Above the ills of earth to soar,
So might her days like thine be past,
Cherished and solaced to the last;
Then be her lot like thine, to die
Without a struggle or a cry!
| Poems and miscellanies selected from the writings of Miss Eliza Townsend | |