POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL. A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ. William Lisle Bowles 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. 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.

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POLE-VELLUM , CORNWALL . A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON , ESQ . Stranger ! mark this lovely scene , When the evening sets serene , And starting o'er the silent wood , The last pale sunshine streaks the flood , And the water gushing near Soothes , with ceaseless drip , thine ear ; Then bid each passion sink to rest ; — Should ev'n one wish rise in thy breast , One tender wish , as now in mine , That some such quiet spot were thine , And thou , recalling seasons fled , Couldst wake the slumbers of the dead , And bring back her you loved , to share With thee calm peace and comfort there ; — Oh , check the thought , but inly pray To He , " who gives and takes away , " That many years this fair domain Its varied beauties may retain ; — So when some wanderer , who has lost His heart's best treasure , who has crossed In life bleak hills and passes rude , Should gain this lovely solitude ; Delighted he may pause a while , And when he marks the landscape smile , Leave with its willows , ere he part , The blessings of a softened heart . July 1786.