EXTEMPORE AFTER A DISPUTE AT DUNKERQUE. Isabella Kelly (née Fordyce) 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. T122123 Kelly, Isabella, 1759-1857. Collection of Poems and Fables on Several Occasions. London W. Richardson 1794 p. 26. 72p.

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EXTEMPORE AFTER A DISPUTE AT DUNKERQUE . Ah ! why should passion rend a generous breast , Or tears of anguish dim a chearing eye , When gentle means could charm ev'n thought to rest , Soothe ev'ry care , repress each rising sigh ? Or why let cold indifference chill that bliss , Design'd by Heaven to bless the human kind , Or bleak neglect avert the peaceful kiss , The sweetest offering of a yielding mind ? Then now let love , let peace their home regain , And meek-eyed mercy say , " thou art forgiven , " And mutual o'er our ruder passions reign , Until they guide us to their native Heaven .