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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: 193 THE MINSTREL: THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK II. Of chance or change O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail; Tor, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, Al l feel th' assault of Fortune's fickle gale; Art, empire, Earth itself, to change are doom'd; Earthquakes have rais'd to Heaven the humble vale, And gulphs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd; And where th' Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd. But sure to foreign climes we need not range, Nor search the ancient records of our race, To learn the dire effects of time and change, Which in ourselves, alas we daily trace. See Plato's Timeus. o Yet at the darken'd eye, the wither'd face, Or hoary hair, I never will repine: But spare, O Time, whate'er of mental grace, Of candour, love, or sympathy divine, Whate'er of fancy's ray, or friendship's flame is mine. So I, obsequious to Truth's dread command, Shall here without reluctance change my lay, And smite the gothic lyre with harsher hand; Now when I leave that flowery path for aye, Of childhood, where I sported many a day, Warbling and sauntering carelessly along; Where every face was innocent and gay, Each vale romantic, tuneful every tongue, Sweet, wild, and artless all, as Edwin's infant song. Perish the lore that deadens young desire, Is the soft tenor of my song no more. Edwin, tho' lov'd of Heaven, must not aspire To bliss, which mortals never knew before. On trembling wings let youthful fancy soar, Nor always haunt the sunny realms of joy: But now and then the shades of life explore; Tho' many a sound and sight of woe annoy, And many a qualm of care his rising hopes destroy. Vigour from toil, from trouble patience grows...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217091534 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217091539 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $16.23 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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