The Petition of An Old Uninhabited House in Penzance to its Master in Town With Hints to the Author of John Bull, A Comedy. To which is added an Appendix. Embellished with a View of the Old House. Second Edition [by C. V. Le Grice] |
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SONNET ON CUTTING DOWN AN
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SONNET ON CUTTING DOWN AN OLD ARBOUR.
With desolating stroke the woodman's bladeHath hewn thy bough-wove arches to the ground:
No more within the chequers of thy shade
The warblings of the nestled thrush resound.
No more from sultry noon shall here retire
Friendship and home-nurs'd Love, in union sweet,
To Summer's change for Winter's social fire,
The quiet converse of thy hush'd retreat.—
Thy joys are strewn like scatter'd leaves; away
They're swept from light and memory; and they,
Who o'er thy fate in sad repining stand,
As those who erst enjoy'd thy shade,—shall all
Like thy torn shatter'd branches with'ring fall
Beneath the scythe of Time's unsparing hand.
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