The various Reviews, in their notice of the above Poem, describe it as the most interesting among the many that appeared on the melancholy occasion of the Princess Charlotte's decease.—It possesses considerable fancy and interest, and as a mere poem, would be read with pleasure. The influence of the changing season upon a beautiful oak at Claremont, is blended with the address to her who also graced the scene, and is made the vehicle for observing upon her laudable love of nature and retirement. The oak is rent by lightning, and all its strength and glory levelled by the momentary shaft: thus also were a nation's hopes overthrown!
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