[436] See Thomson's lines To the Reverend Patrick Murdoch, Rector of Stradishall, in Suffolk, 1738, l. 10.—Ed.
1827
The poems composed in 1827 were for the most part sonnets. But several of those first published in 1827 evidently belong to an earlier year, the date of which it is impossible to discover.—Ed.
[ON SEEING A NEEDLECASE IN THE FORM OF A HARP]
THE WORK OF E. M. S.[437]
Composed 1827.—Published 1827
One of the "Poems of the Fancy."—Ed.
Frowns are on every Muse's face,
Reproaches from their lips are sent,
That mimicry should thus disgrace
The noble Instrument.