The Poetical Remains of the late Dr. John Leyden with Memoirs of his Life, by the Rev. James Morton |
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MELANCHOLY.
WRITTEN IN 1798.
Where its blue pallid boughs the poplar rearsI sit, to mark the passing riv'let's chime,
And muse whence flows the silent stream of time;
And to what clime depart the winged years.
In fancy's eye each scene of youth appears
Bright as the setting sun's last purple gleam,
Which streaks the mist that winds along the stream,
Bathing the harebell with eve's dewy tears.
Ah! blissful days of youth, that ne'er again
Revive, with scenes of every fairy hue,
And sunny tints which fancy's pencil drew,
Are you not false as hope's delusive train?
For, as your scenes to memory's view return,
You ever point to a lov'd sister's urn.
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