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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(Written in the Album, Oct. 25th, 1819),
TO VISITORS AT THE LAND'S END.
Stranger! when on the promontory's browOf old Bolerium o'er the surge below
You muse with dizzy gaze; and, when again
You turn to mingle in the haunts of men,
What are your thoughts? Amid the mighty scene
Of Nature's temple are they hushed, serene,
Soothed to a sabbath stilness? Or, while play
The gentle Zephyrs on their softest wing,
With ladies fair and blithe companions gay
Do you indulge in mirth and revelling?
Pause on your Country's bourn: and, as a day
So won from other yet revolving years
May ne'er return, or marked by smiles or tears
Embalm it here by some poetic lay.
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