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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T96723 Seward, Anna, 1742-1809. Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems. London Printed for G. Sael, No. 192, Strand 1796 p. 48.

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SONNET . If he whose bosom with no transport swells In vernal airs , and hours , commits the crime Of sullenness to Nature ; 'gainst the time , And its great RULER , he alike rebels Who seriousness , and pious dread repels , And aweless gazes on the faded Clime , Dim in the gloom , and pale in the hoar rhyme , That o'er the bleak , and dreary Prospect steals . Spring claims our tender , grateful , gay delight ; Winter our sympathy , and sacred fear ; And sure the Hearts that pay not Pity's rite O'er wide Calamity , — that careless hear Creation's wail , — neglect , amid her blight , The solemn lesson of the RUIN'D YEAR .