Poems Consisting Of Essays, Lyric, Elegiac, &c. By Thomas Dermody. Written between the 13th and 16th Year of his Age |
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SONNET,
TO THE MEMORY OF COLLINS.
Peace, sweet Enthusiast! to thy gentle shade,
Whose timid step immortal Fancy led,
Where the mix'd Passions throng'd the holy glade;
Or, where Spring linger'd o'er Fidele's bed.
Whose timid step immortal Fancy led,
Where the mix'd Passions throng'd the holy glade;
Or, where Spring linger'd o'er Fidele's bed.
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Wild, as the lucid lightning's sudden blaze,Thine awful genius struck the golden string,
The Muse, in Thee, her brightest store displays;
And from thy page the sparks of phrenzy spring!
II
O'er thy lone tomb shall injured Merit weep,And Poesy, the baneful harp, discard;
O! could not Worth thy peace unbroken, keep!
O! could not Talents save Thee, hapless Bard!
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