LINES WRITTEN IN 1799.

LINES WRITTEN IN 1799. Amelia Opie (née Alderson) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853. The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Opie. 2d. ed. London Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row 1808 pp. [49]-50.

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LINES WRITTEN IN 1799. HAIL to thy pencil ! well its glowing art Has traced those features painted on my heart ; Now , though in distant scenes she soon will rove , Still here I behold the friend I love — Still see that smile , " endearing , artless , kind , " The eye's mild beam that speaks the candid mind , Which , sportive oft , yet fearful to offend , By humour charms , but never wounds a friend . But in my breast contending feelings rise , While this loved semblance fascinates my eyes ; Now , pleased I mark the painter's skilful line , And now , rejoice the skill I mark is thine : And while I prize the gift by thee bestow'd , My heart proclaims , I'm of the giver proud . Thus pride and friendship war with equal strife , And now the friend exults , and now the wife .