Such was the fate hope pictured to my view- When thy loved flower "spring's victory makes known," The primrose pale shall bloom for thee alone: Around thy urn the rosemary well spread, Whose "tender fragrance," emblem of the deadShall "teach the maid, whose bloom no longer lives," That "virtue every perish'd grace survives." Farewell! sweet Moralist; heart-sickening grief Tells me in duty's path to seek relief, With surer aim on faith's strong pinions rise, STANZAS, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE. BY A LADY. YE gentlest gales! oh, hither waft, Your frequent sighs so passing soft, Where he, the youthful Poet, sleeps! He breathed the purest tenderest sigh, The sigh of sensibility. And thou shalt lie, his favourite flower, Nor hence thy pensive eye seclude, Ye falling dews, Oh! ever leave Your crystal drops these flowers to steep: At earliest morn, at latest eve, Oh let them for their poet weep! For tears bedew'd his gentle eye, The tears of heavenly sympathy. Thou western Sun, effuse thy beams; |