A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen volume 6
A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen volume 6
George Godfrey Cunningham
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Politics chiefly occupied the latter part of Mason's life. He opposed the American war, and advocated parliamentary reform ; but a new light latterly broke in upon his mind on these matters, and he followed the course of Burke in abjuring his former tenets, and publishing a new political faith in his ' Palinodia, ' which was written in 1794. For some years previous to his death, he was in the habit of com- posing an anniversary sonnet on his birth-day. The following, com- memorating the complet...ion of his 72d year, is perhaps the last piece of poetry he ever wrote : " Again the year on easy wheels has roll'd, To bear me to the term of seventy-two ; Yet still my eyes can seize the distant blue Of yon wild Peak ; and still my footsteps bold, Unprop'd by staff, support me to behold How Nature, to her Maker's mandate true, Calls Spring's impartial heralds to the view, 166 LITERARY SERIES. [EIGHTH The snow-drop pale, the crocus spik'd with go)d : ^nd still thank Heaven if I not falsely deem.
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