SONNET ON READING BURNS' “MOUNTAIN DAISY.” Helen Maria Williams 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. Williams, Helen Maria, 1759-1827. Poems on various subjects: with introductory remarks on the present state of science and literature in France. London G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 p. 205.

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SONNET ON READING BURNS' “ MOUNTAIN DAISY . ” WHILE soon the " garden's flaunting flowers " decay , And , scatter'd on the earth , neglected lie , The " Mountain Daisy , " cherish'd by the ray A poet drew from heav'n , shall never die . Ah ! like that lovely flower the poet rose ! 'Mid penury's bare soil and bitter gale ; He felt each storm that on the mountain blows , Nor ever knew the shelter of the vale . By Genius in her native vigour nurst , On Nature with impassion'd look he gazed , Then through the cloud of adverse fortune burst Indignant , and in light unborrow'd blaz'd . Shield from rude sorrow , SCOTIA ! shield thy bard : — His heav'n-taught numbers Fame herself will guard .