The Emigrants Tale a Poem in Two Parts And Miscellaneous Poems
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And dreams of coming sorrow hamited not Thy spirit then, that seemed for gladness bom. And power, and empire, and a cloudless lot. That ne'er might droop, o'er shadowed and forlom, Nor sink beneath the unresisted flood Of hopeless grief, whose fatal tide was blood ! Q 114 METROPOLITAN SKETCHES. ni. Palace ! thy name jars painful on the ear ! A dim sepulchral veil around thee spread, Tells of the fallen King's untimely bier — Tells of the lorn and royal victim dead — Yes ! Chaeles was borne to h...apless slaughter here ; And he who has the solemn lesson read, Will mark the moral which his end hath taught, That wealth and greatness, power and fame are nought ! IV. Yet, as I gaze upon the high roof, where The magic hand of genius has defined Pictures of loveliness, surpassing fair. That show the fadeless sunlight of the mind. Spirit of Reubens ! thou seem'st hovering there To tell that fame is not to time confined ; That genius never dies, but still is seen Crowned with the laurel, and for ever green !
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