John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Thomas Campbell. (1777–1844) (continued) |
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But Hope, the charmer, linger’d still behind. |
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O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save! |
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Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek’d as Kosciusko fell! 1 |
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On Prague’s proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. |
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And rival all but Shakespeare’s name below. |
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Who hath not own’d, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name? |
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Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun. |
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The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh’d—till woman smiled. |
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While Memory watches o’er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew. |
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There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears. |
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And muse on Nature with a poet’s eye. |
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That gems the starry girdle of the year. |
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Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o’er the parting soul! |
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O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair? |
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But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. 2 |
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Note 1. At length, fatigued with life, he bravely fell, And health with Boerhaave bade the world farewell. Church: The Choice (1754). [back] |
Note 2. See Sterne, Quotation 5. [back] |