TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. Thomas Chatterton 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. T48948 K045459.000 Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton London printed for T. Becket, in Pall-Mall; Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princes. MDCCLXXXIV. 1784 pp. 10-11. [6],ii,88p.; 8⁰.

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TO MISS H—L—D . 1768. ONCE more the Muse to beauteous H—l—d sings ; Her grateful tribute of harsh numbers brings To H—l—d ! Nature's richest , sweetest store , She made an H—l—d , and can make no more . Nor all the beauties of the world's vast round United , will as sweet as her be found . Description sickens to rehearse her praise . Her worth alone will deify my days . Enchanting creature ! Charms so great as thine May all the beauties of the day outshine . Thy eyes to ev'ry gazer send a dart , Thy taking graces captivate the heart . O for a Muse that shall ascend the skies , And like the subject of the Epode rise ; To sing the sparkling eye , the portly grace , The thousand beauties that adorn the face Of my seraphic Maid ; whose beauteous charms Might court the world to rush at once to arms . Whilst the fair Goddess , native of the skies , Shall sit above , and be the Victor's prize . O now , whil'st yet I sound the tuneful lyre , I feel the thrilling joy her hands inspire ; When the soft tender touch awakes my blood , And rolls my passions with the purple flood . My pulse beat high : my throbbing breast's on fire In sad variety of wild desire . O H—l—d ! Heav'nly Goddess ! Angel , Saint , Words are too weak thy mighty worth to paint ; Thou best , compleatest work that Nature made , Thou art my substance , and I am thy shade . Possess'd of thee , I joyfully would go Thro' the loud tempest , and the depth of woe . From thee alone my being I derive , One beauteous smile from thee , makes all my hopes alive .