While my unnumbered brethren toiled and bled, 8. T. COLERIDOE. Grad 828 W62 1850 buhr Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY B. B. MUSSEY & CO. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY $. X. DICKINSON, BOSTON 1 ! Grad/ Buhr Kar & Katharine e 1-6-98 Lawyer PRO EM. I LOVE the old melodious lays The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Yet, vainly in my quiet hours I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, The rigor of a frozen clime, The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time, Of mystic beauty, dreamy grace, Unskilled the subtle lines to trace Or softer shades of Nature's face, I view her common forms with unanointed eyes. Nor mine the seer-like power to show The secrets of the heart and mind; To drop the plummet-line below Our common world of joy and woe, Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right and weal is shown; A hate of tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, Oh Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song, Still with a love as deep and strong As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine ! AMESBURY, 11th mo., 1847. |