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An autumn dream: thoughts in verse (1837)
An autumn dream thoughts in verse - 1837 Author:John Sheppard Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN AUTUMN DREAM. Ah, what were friendship, -- what the dearer bonds Of conjugal, parental, filial love, What but frail bonds heart-wounding more tha... more »n dear, -- Tenderly torturing ; if this span of days Precarious, sad, unequal, brake them all! If no sweet hope of reuniting joys Beyond this deathful sphere, ilium'd the path By which we journey toward our several tombs ; While they that toil'd the farthest, saw engulf'd Loves, comforts, aids, along the closing way ! -- Blest be his grace, who lit the torch of hope For our benighted world; whose living truth Disclos'd and seal'd a heaven of social bliss; And bade his ' brethren' wait that festal day Within his ' Father's house;' where saints convok'd ' Rejoice with' the immortal' that rejoice;' There in each other's glowing eyes to read Undying life, and all the fathomless eup Of circling immortalities to share. Scarce had the poet our approach announc'd To that recess where his illustrious friends Were wont to meet, -- when round the rock's steep We turn'd, and saw within their grassy cove That pair recumbent. Flow'd a rivulet Fast by, where shining fish quiescent lay Or darted ; while bright insect families Bent the slight waving herbs, or mov'd the wing And humm'd soft carols in the silent air. Now rose the friends to' accost us; and some words Of lighter question and of due response, -- With some apart betwixt my guide and them -- Pass'd mutual. Then the Saxon bard withdrew ; When Boyle, with winning suavity, began To speak of wonders natural and divine. And, as in some resounding Gothic pile Where the full organ rears its fluted front, A votaress of Cecilia runs through all Her amplest diapason, -...« less