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 FANCY.
O Fancy! lead me to thy woodbine bow'r,What time the dim-ey'd bat, on leathern wing,
Proclaims mild Evening's melancholy hour,
And calls each Elf to Clodio's haunted spring,
For Obron's merry 'tendants then, have pow'r;
Meanwhile, faint Echoes to their murmurs ring;
And Hesper stoops behind a sapphire cloud,—
Sweet Fancy! then, each purer vision bring,
Each scene celestial, to my mental eye;
'Till pealing deeply full, with sullen swing,
From steeple-top, the death knell scares each joy,
And scatters o'er the vale thy fairy crowd.
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