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Where flowly winds the flealing wave!

The year's best sweets fhall duteous rife

To deck its Poet's fylvan grave!

II.

In yon deep bed of whisp'ring reeds
His airy harp fhall now be laid,

That he, whofe heart in forrow bleeds,

May love thro' life the foothing fhade.

The harp of EOLUS, of which Lee a description in the CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.

III.

Then maids and youths fhall linger here,
And while its founds at distance swell,
Shall fadly feem in Pity's ear

To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell.

IV.

Remembrance oft fhall haunt the shore
When Thames in fummer wreaths is dreft,

And oft fufpend the dashing oar

To bid his gentle spirit rest!

V.

And oft as Ease and Health retire

To breezy lawn, or foreft deep,

The friend fhall view yon whitening fpire,
And 'mid the varied landscape weep,

VI.

But Thou, who own'ft that earthly bed,
Ah! what will every dirge avail ?

Or tears, which Love and Pity fhed

That mourn beneath the gliding fail!

RICHMOND Church.

VII.

VII.

Yet lives there one, whofe heedlefs eye

Shall fcorn thy pale fhrine glimm'ring near? With him, sweet bard, may Fancy die,

And Joy defert the blooming year.

VIII.

But thou, lorn ftream, whose fullen tide
No fedge-crown'd Sifters now attend,

Now waft me from the green hill's fide
Whofe cold turf hides the buried friend!

IX.

And fee, the fairy valleys fade,

Dun Night has veil'd the folemn view!
Yet once again, dear parted fhade,
Meek Nature's Child, again adieu !

X.

* The genial meads affign'd to blefs
Thy life, fhall mourn thy early doom;
Their hinds, and shepherd-girls shall dress
With fimple hands thy rural tomb.

• Mr. Thomson refided in the neighbourhood of Richmond fometime before his death,

XI.

Long, long, thy ftone, and pointed clay
Shall melt the mufing Briton's eyes,

O! vales, and wild woods, fhall He say,
In yonder grave Your Druid lies!

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