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POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL.

A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ.

1 Stranger! mark this lovely scene,
2 When the evening sets serene,
3 And starting o'er the silent wood,
4 The last pale sunshine streaks the flood,
5 And the water gushing near
6 Soothes, with ceaseless drip, thine ear;
7 Then bid each passion sink to rest;
8 Should ev'n one wish rise in thy breast,
9 One tender wish, as now in mine,
10 That some such quiet spot were thine,[Page 98]
11 And thou, recalling seasons fled,
12 Couldst wake the slumbers of the dead,
13 And bring back her you loved, to share
14 With thee calm peace and comfort there;
15 Oh, check the thought, but inly pray
16 To He, "who gives and takes away,"
17 That many years this fair domain
18 Its varied beauties may retain;
19 So when some wanderer, who has lost
20 His heart's best treasure, who has crossed
21 In life bleak hills and passes rude,
22 Should gain this lovely solitude;
23 Delighted he may pause a while,
24 And when he marks the landscape smile,
25 Leave with its willows, ere he part,
26 The blessings of a softened heart.
July 1786.

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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, pp. 97-98.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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