STANZAS.
(Written on a stone, part of the ruins of Chertsey Abbey, Surrey).
(For the Mirror.)
From gayer scenes, where pleasure's mad career
Infects the milder avenues of thought,
Where secret Envy swells the note of Fear,
And Hope is in its own illusion caught.
Where, in Ambition's thorny path of power,
Contending votaries bow to toils of state,
I turn, regardless of the passing hour,