PITY'S TEAR. What falls so sweet on summer flow'rs What bids despair her arrows hide? Yet not that Pity form'd to give Not Pity that, with haughty smile, ON A TEAR. Oh! that the chemists magic art The little brilliant, ere it fell, Sweet drop of pure and pearly light! Benign, restorer of the soul! The sage's and the poet's theme, Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its scource, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course, The law of gravitation. FORTITUDE. I love the man, whose giant soul War's bloody fiends, with wrathful ire, Bid o'er the fields their legions fly, Far o'er the main bid rage extend; He that can hate their martial fire, Can scan their souls with Reason's eye, Is to Britannia's Bard a bosom friend. Stern Winter triumphs in the sky, Sad Nature's woeful face deforms, When sweep around the raging storms, And with undaunted soul can laugh and sing. He dreads no thunders of the night, When roaming o'er the pathless waste, When toiling on the mountain'd wave; Whilst Envy speeds with hellish haste, To bid her tallon'd fiends around him rave. He nor vile Wealth's bewitching glare, Behold with eyes of keen desire; To shake his bosom's calm repose, When, felt in flames of sore disease, Death's dagger'd throngs invade his heart He still unconquer'd meets the shock; Firm as a mountain, still at ease, He smiles unmov'd, nor feels the dart, But stands a champion bold on Heav'ns eternal rock. |