Fruits of Retirement Or, Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Divine. Being Some Contemplations, Letters, &c. Written on a Variety of Subjects and Occasions. By Mary Mollineux ... To which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Author |
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An EPISTLE.
Is Friends fled, or Love grown cold?Do frozen Walls of Ice with-hold
Its Pearly Streams? O let the Sun,
That gave it being, shine upon
The brittle Fence! Or is some Skreen
Injuriously set up between
The gentle Spring, and that bright Ray
Which, conqu'ring Night, brings joyful Day?
Remove that Obstacle away:
Then, tho' with Grief I may confess,
In Winter-time th' Effects be less,
Because of Distance, or cold Air
Prevailing in our Hemisphere,
And interposing (For Sol's Pow'r
Is still the same each Day and Hour)
It will dissolve the Frost in time,
If its warm Ray there-on may shine;
Tho' vacant Clouds do interpose
Its pure refulgent Beam, and those
Inferiour Concrets that have Birth
From the gross Element of Earth.
But stay! Methinks a Spring should be
From Winters chilling force, more free
Than to be Frozen! Inbred Heat
Is then, with purest Springs, more great;
And with its Current soon doth glide
Through Ice besetting either side.
Let Love spring up, that we may see
The same Effects, dear Friend, in thee.
1682.
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