While thy brow youth's roses crown.
HINT FROM THE MOUNTAINS,
For certain Political Pretenders[268]
Composed 1817.—Published 1820
[Bunches of fern may often be seen wheeling about in the wind as here described. The particular bunch that suggested these verses was noticed in the Pass of Dunmail Raise. The verses were composed in 1817, but the application is for all times and places.—I. F.]
Included among the "Poems of the Fancy."—Ed.
"Who but hails the sight with pleasure[269]
When the wings of genius rise,
Their ability to measure
With great enterprise;