SONNET TO PEACE OF MIND. 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. 207.

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SONNET TO PEACE OF MIND . SWEET Peace ! ah , lead me from the thorny dale , Where desolate my wand'ring steps have fled ; Far from the sunny paths which others tread , While youth enlivens , and while joys prevail . Then I no more shall vanished hopes bewail , No more the fruitless tear shall love to shed , When pensive eve her cherish'd gloom has spread , And day's bright tints , like my short pleasures , fail ! Yet lead me not where blooms the glowing rose , But lead me where the cypress branches wave ; Thou hast a shelt'ring cell for cureless woes , A home of refuge , where no tempests rave ; There would my weary heart in youth repose , Beneath the turf that shrouds an early grave .