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SONNET. TO MR UNDERWOOD, ON HIS SETTING OUT FOR A GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION IN CORNWALL, JULY 1795.
Searcher of Wisdom! in the earth's dark wombThou those drear caves shalt visit, where the day
Has never glimmer'd through the eternal gloom:
Go there,—and journeying in thy distant way,
Sometimes remember me. I too would share
Thy lot, and haply might beguile the road
With converse, tedious else; but me the load
Wearying, and hard weighs down of anxious care.
Hence dark of mind, and hence my furrow'd brow
Lowers stern and sullen. There was once a day
When thou hast heard me pour a happier lay:
This boots not to remember; and know thou
That not without a sinking of the heart,
My Friend, I shall behold thee hence depart.
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