Charlotte Turner Smith
          
Elegiac sonnets. Volume 1 of 2
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SONNET XIX.

TO MR. HAYLEY.
ON RECEIVING SOME ELEGANT LINES FROM HIM.
FOR me the Muse a simple band design'd
         Of 'idle' flowers that bloom the woods among,
Which, with the cypress and the willow join'd,
         A garland form'd as artless as my song.
And little dar'd I hope its transient hours
         So long would last; compos'd of buds so brief;
'Till Hayley's hand among the vagrant flowers,
         Threw from his verdant crown, a deathless leaf.
For high in Fame's bright fane has Judgment plac'd
         The laurel wreath Serena's poet won,
Which, wov'n with myrtles by the hands of Taste,
         The Muse decreed, for this her favourite son.
And those immortal leaves his temples shade,
Whose fair eternal verdure shall not fade!
 
 
 
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