And snatch’d a short oblivion to his woe.
No further seek his frailties to disclose,
Or tell each little failing of his life,
Here they, forgot in silence, should repose—
The bosom of his confidant and wife.
From The Pleasures of Nature; or, the Charms of Rural Life. With other Poems. By David Carey. London: Vernon and Hood. 1803.
(D. Carey also published “Reign of Fancy, with Lyrical Tales,” 1804. “Craig Phadric; Visions of Sensibility, with Legendary Tales,” Printed at Inverness for the Author, 8vo., 1811. Carey was the son of a manufacturer in Arbroath, Forfarshire, where he was born in 1782. He edited The Inverness Journal for five years, and died at Arbroath, October 4th, 1824.)
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Elegiac Stanzas,
On returning at Day-break, through an Alley
in London, from a Ball at Lady Dash’s.