University of Virginia Library

ON SENDING SOME SONNETS TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

If thy far-reaching telescope, which takes
So wide a compass of Humanity,
And the horizon of its farthest sky,
With stars of the first size, whose luminous wakes
Leave tracks of light (like streaks when morning breaks)
On Time's horizon, can mark such as I,
And this faint star of dawning poesy,
Which small show 'midst these greater glories makes:
If thou canst notice it, and let its ray
Shine on thy page, and light a glowworm space,
Though that be too much where each line hath grace
And force, and lends a tongue to Truth, to say
Her thoughts divine, 'twill labour to repay
The favour, and to shine with brighter face!