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SONNET. [Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve]

1 Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve,
2 That creeps, in shudd'ring sits, along the wave,
3 And trembles 'mid the woods, and through the cave
4 Whose lonely sighs the wanderer deceive;
5 For oft, when melancholy charms his mind,
6 He thinks the Spirit of the rock he hears,
7 Nor listens, but with sweetly-thrilling fears,
8 To the low, mystic murmurs of the wind!
9 Now the bat circles, and the twilight dew
10 Falls silent round, and, o'er the mountain-cliff,
11 The gleaming wave and far-discover'd skiff,
12 Spreads the grey veil of soft, harmonious hue.
13 So falls o'er Grief the dew of pity's tear
14 Dimming her lonely visions of despair.

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Title (in Source Edition): SONNET. [Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve]
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, p. 51. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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