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TO THE BAT.

1 From haunt of man, from day's obtrusive glare,
2 Thou shroud'st thee in the ruin's ivy'd tow'r,
3 Or in some shadowy glen's romantic bow'r,
4 Where wizard forms their mystic charms prepare,
5 Where Horror lurks, and ever-boding Care!
6 But, at the sweet and silent ev'ning hour,
7 When clos'd in sleep is ev'ry languid flow'r,
8 Thou lov'st to sport upon the twilight air,
9 Mocking the eye, that would thy course pursue,
10 In many a wanton round, elastic, gay,
11 Thou flitt'st athwart the pensive wand'rer's way,
12 As his lone footsteps print the mountain-dew.
13 From Indian isles thou com'st, with Summer's car,
14 Twilight thy love — thy guide her beaming star!

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Title (in Source Edition): TO THE BAT.
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Genres: sonnet; address

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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. 90. 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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