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The Legend of St. Loy

With Other Poems. By John Abraham Heraud
Heraud, John A. (1799-1887)
  
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SONNET
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THE LEGEND of ST. Loy
  
Introduction.
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CANTO THE FIRST. The Hermitage.
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CANTO THE SECOND. The Well of St. Loy.
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XXI. The Song of Edwy.
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CANTO THE THIRD. The Wood.
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CANTO THE FOURTH. The Vola.
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XXVI. The Hymn.
  
Conclusion.
  
THE Farewell to Cottenham.
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POEMS.
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THE Lament of the Bard.
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On attaining the Age of Twenty-one
  
THE Grave of the Bard
  
SONG, to---
  
STANZAS On the Death of His Most Gracious Majesty KING GEORGE THE THIRD.
  
SONNET TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ.

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XXVII.

“My Brother! Oh, my Agilnoth!
“Art thou saved too from Ocean's wrath?
“While every other head was sank
“Within its oozy caverns dank,
“Did that more strong than Angel's hand,
“Whose lofty and divine command
“Winds, waves obey—above the brine
“Sustain that sacred head of thine?”
“Yes! I've been saved from watery gloom
“To find a more unhappy doom!
“To see the dove, my bosom's mate,
“Bereaved by the worse storm of Fate!
“My Edwy! Brother, in the skies,
“Why was I not as thou?”—
“Arise!
“Behold thy Brother! I am he!
“Behold me rescued from the sea,
“Preserved e'en yet to comfort thee!”
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“I cannot hope it—my harsh doom
“So much forbids me to presume!
“Or, if thou boast his name in sooth,
“Thou art his Spirit, firm in truth!
“'Tis kind of thee to leave thy bliss,
“And visit such a world as this,
“For me—but thou wert always kind—
“And couldst not see me thus consigned
“To sorrow, and not stoop to bless
“Thy Brother in his wretchedness!”—
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