Malvern Hills with Minor Poems, and Essays. By Joseph Cottle. Fourth Edition |
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INSCRIPTION FOR A CELL IN ST. VINCENT'S ROCKS, NEAR BRISTOL. |
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SONNET III. INSCRIPTION FOR A CELL IN ST. VINCENT'S ROCKS, NEAR BRISTOL.
CELL of my youthful haunts! within thy caveSits awful Silence — fann'd by the soft breeze
That ever and anon from odorous trees
Steels grateful, as the gentle breath of love.
She marks the earliest energies of spring,
On dewy pinions, tending each lone spray
And wildly scatter'd flower; the jocund lay
She loves to hear, that bright-eyed fairies sing.
And when the stars o'er yonder summit shine,
That frowning beetles o'er old Avon's flood;
She, doubly blest, in contemplative mood,
Lists to the flittings of aye passing time—
Stay, mortal, stay. Nor let thy foot intrude:
Here Silence loves to dwell in hermit solitude.
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