AN ELEGY Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay) 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. T104666 Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh Peter Hill 1790 pp. 59-60. 92p.

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AN ELEGY Matilda was mild as the morn , Yet gay as the Goddess of Youth ; No gems did Matilda adorn But innocence , virtue , and truth . She came from the banks of the Thames , Her looks her soft passion exprest For Fellen , the youth of her dreams , The solace and pride of her breast . His eyes were as bright as the sun ; Her form was all graceful and gay ; Scarce equall'd , and rivall'd by none ; His voice was the nightingale's lay . He lov'd his Matilda awhile , But soon she discover'd , too late , That men can deceive while they smile , And go without shame or regret . From Cupid he borrow'd a dart , And long it seem'd lent him in vain ; But when he had wounded her heart , He instantly quitted the plain . She stood by the side of a brook , When left by her Fellen alone , And cast such a pitiful look , Might have melted the heart of a stone . The Heavens were wrapp'd in a cloud , All nature dejected did seem ; When calling on Fellen aloud , She suddenly plung'd in the stream .