Stanzas on the death of Lady Helen Boyle
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 s; T A N: z A s 
 
 ON THE DEATH OF 
 
 E, A D Y HELEN BOYLE.
 
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 STANZAS 
 
 ON THE DEATH OF 
 
 LADY HELEN BOYLE. 
 
 1? AREWEL, gay Mufei who erft on wayward wings 
 Thro' life's bright fcenes my devious fancy bore 3. 
 No more to airy notes attune thy firings, 
 Thy light fantaftic lays enchant no more. 
 
 But come, thou penfive power! that lov'fl to dwell 
 Where filent forrow's hopeJefs victim's moarn, 
 Or tread the hoary hermit's dreary cell, 
 And clafp with ftreaming eyes the facred urn,. 
 
 O come! 
 
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 O come ! and join with me the fable throng, 
 That heave o'er Delia's tomb the pitying figh; 
 Soft flow thy plaintive numbers, fad the fong, 
 Whofe melting drains along the Welkin die. 
 
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 Come loves and graces! o'er the hallow'd ground 
 Spring's opening buds in rich profufion ftrow j 
 Come, white-rob'd maids ! with boughs of cyprefs crown'd, 
 And in foft murmuring accents "breathe your woe. 
 
 No fairer form the poet's art could feign, 
 Nor faints in blifs a fp'rit more pure defire, 
 Nor that to grace fair Salem's facred plain, 
 Nor thefe to join with hymns th' ethereal quire. 
 
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 All ! whither have the blufhing rofe-buds fled, 
 That late with opening tints refplendent (hone ? 
 Where the foft eye, that tears of pity fhed 
 For ev'ry fufferer's anguifti but her own ? 
 
 Quench'd is the light that in thefe eye-beams (hone, 
 Faint emblems of the funftiine of her bread ! 
 Where gentle peace had fix'd her placid throne, 
 And ev'ry boifl'rous pafllon lull'd to reft. 
 
 Where now, alas ! that foft perfuafive tongue, 
 AVhofe artlefs notes on ev'ry bofom ftole ? 
 'Unlike the tranfient flafh, the noify fong, 
 That ftrikes the ear, but cannot melt the foul. 
 
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 Thus orient dew its pearly drops diftils, 
 And fheds new fragrance o'er the parched mead 3 
 The balmy juice each thirfty cavern fills, 
 Each dying bloflbm rears its drooping head. 
 
 Fair was the. frame that lodg'd the heav'nly guefr">i 
 But ah! too frail to reaclr life's utmoft date :. 
 Gently ferene {he. funk in balmy reft, 
 Refign'd to heav'n and an untimely fate. 
 
 Bright hope and hav'n-born faith fuftain'd" her fouF,, 
 No agonizing terrors chill'd her heart; 
 Fearlefs (he heard the diftant thunders roll, 
 And fmil'd to fee the tyrant aim his dart. 
 
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 Relentlefs Death ! fhall then thy wanton rage 
 Thus mar the faireft forms that grace the plain, 
 While thoufands, black with crimes, or worn with age, 
 Defy thy wrath, or court thy aid in vain ? 
 
 But ceafe, my penfive mufeJ thy plaintive 
 Religion points thy views to yonder more, 
 Where heav'ns bright rays eternal calm maintain^ 
 And fins affail, and griefs opprefs no more. 
 
 There Delia blooms thro' love's eternal reign, 
 And chaunts with feraph fillers heav'nly lays } 
 Earth's little fcenes (he views with jufl difdain, 
 And each pafl fuffering tunes her foul to praife. 
 
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 Fair virgin faint! if from the realms of light* 
 Thou e'er fhalt deign to caft a pitying eye 
 On this dark gloom, involv'd in clouds and night, 
 Where doubts perplex, and ills in ambufli lie 3. 
 
 If weeping friends may (hare feraphic love,, 
 If parent, fillers, j brother, ftill are dear; 
 Steal one fhort moment from the blefb above/ 
 And with one tranfient glance, their bofoms chear I" 
 
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