It lies so deeply on my heart,
That aye when trying to divulge it,
My thoughts fly somehow all apart.
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TO THE REV. HENRY DUDLEY RYDER,
On reading his volume, entitled "The Angelicon, a Gallery of Sonnets, on the Divine Attributes, and the Passions, the Graces, and the Virtues."
Thy strains, sweet poet, have the power
To give a solace to the mind,
What time the clouds of sadness lour,—