SONG.
Gentle Stream, whose wild meanders
Cheer the birds and feed the flowers,
While by thee Amelia wanders,
Wilt thou soothe her pensive hours?
If the world were at my bidding,
Music should her steps attend,
And where’er her feet were treading,
Flowers should bloom, and sweets ascend.
SONG.
TO A LADY GOING TO HER FAMILY IN IRELAND.
Will you go, Mary, from me?
Is it choice, or love or duty,
That you trust your worth and beauty
Upon the stormy Sea?
Can you hope, Mary, to find,
Tho’ you rove the wide world over,
Friends so true, so fond a Lover,
As you leave here behind?
TO
THE SUN.
O Thou whose inextinguishable eye
Now sleeps beneath the ocean stream,
Whether the star of morn shall call thee forth
To pour thy rich and fiery beam
Through the wide arch of an unclouded sky;
Or whether the rude North
Shall o’er thy head his showery mantle cast,
Making the dank earth shiver at his blast;
Welcome alike to me! the genial day
That gave my fair Eliza birth
Needs not thy gaudy smile to make it glad:
Still cheer the spleeny race of earth
With the warm lustre of thy fostering ray;
On me in vain are shed
Thy beams and unregarded, while I prove
The dearer influence of Her smiles and love.