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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THE LAUREATE's ODE, 1771. |
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THE LAUREATE's ODE, 1771.
At length the fleeting year is o'er,And we no longer are deceiv'd;
The wars and tumults are no more
That Fancy form'd and Fear believ'd:
Each distant object of distress,
Each phantom of uncertain guess
The busy mind of man could raise,
Has taught e'en Folly to beware:
At Fleets and Armies in the air
The wond'ring croud has ceas'd to gaze.
And shall the same dull cheats again
Revive in stale succession roll'd,
Shall sage Experience war in vain
Nor the New Year be wiser than the Old?
Forbid it, ye protecting Powers
Who guide the months, the days, the hours,
Which now advance on rapid wing!
May each new spectre of the night
Dissolve at their approaching light,
As fly the wintry damps the soft return of Spring!
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