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

TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN.
GO! rural Naiad; wind thy stream along
         Thro' woods and wilds: then seek the ocean caves
Where sea nymphs meet, their coral rocks among,
         To boast the various honors of their waves!
'Tis but a little, o'er thy shallow tide,
         That toiling trade her burden'd vessel leads;
But laurels grow luxuriant on thy side,
         And letters live, along thy classic meads.
Lo! where 'mid British bards thy natives shine!

[Note:] SONNET XXXIII.
Line 9.
Thy natives.
Toway, Collins, Hayley.


         And now another poet helps to raise
Thy glory high the poet of the MINE!
         Whose brilliant talents are his smallest praise:
And who, to all the genius can impart,
Adds the cool head, and the unblemish'd heart!
 
 
 
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