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VERSES sent to Mrs. H--- ---, at her Cottage.
Ye unendearing tribes of care and strife,Who haunt the 'wildering paths of crouded life;
Ye dazling phantoms of delusive state;
Ah fly these limits lone, and seek the great.
Alas! your guilty forms but ill agree
With the soft features of Simplicity!
Here Harriett dwells—full studious to be blest
With the mild sunshine of a mind at rest,
From all the world this spot remote has chose
Well pleas'd to meet the mansion of repose;
And, as of scenes to which she has bade adieu,
With lingering glance she takes a backward view;
Oft sighs to find the gentler virtues dwell
Beneath the straw-built roof and mossy cell.
Spirits of bliss, whose ever-guardian care,
With wakeful watch unseen protects the fair;
Your happier thoughts of heavenly hue impart,
They'll find a kindred soil in Harriett's heart,
Of her warm soul refine each pure intent,
And touch the tender chords of sentiment,
Where feelingly alive those charms we trace
That Beauty first had promised in her face.
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