Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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LAUDATRIX TEMPORIS ACTI.
Why should my love in idle phantasyFlatter the records of her childish hours,
And deem her joy gone by? Oh, read in me
Love's heart, and entertain his glorious powers;
Taste Love's high pleasures, and you'll cast in scorn
All fond regrets for former joys away:
Love's promises are like the hand of Morn,
Crimsoning the East to antedate the day;
For by so much as is his morning glance
Outrivalled by his full meridian eye,
So much are Love's joys in Love's hopes' advance;
Yet herein true Love dims the sun on high,—
When once he hath attained his highest bent,
He owns no evening and no occident.
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