contents | previous | next From sad reality and vain regret, Nor courts enchanting fiction to allay Sorrows the sense refuses to forget: For of calamity so long the prey, Imagination now has lost her powers, Nor will her fairy loom again essay To dress affliction in a robe of flowers. But if no more the bowers of Fancy bloom, Let one superior scene attract my view, Where heaven's pure rays the sacred spot illume, Let thy lov'd hand with palm and amaranth strew The mournful path approaching to the tomb, While Faith's consoling voice endears the friendly gloom. |
