-His kingdom comes! Reveal'd as now, from high -Bursting the grave He comes the First that rosePledge of immortal life to them that sleep! Pledge of Dominion o'er the last of foes, "That they who sow in tears, in joy shall reap." Yes! they shall reap in joy, ev'n now who bear Had seen the advent of created Time? Shall man reluctant bow, to purchase bliss sublime. SONNET. O cruel Love! with what a true delight Thy fatal fires extinguish'd did I deem: And hope no more to loath Day's sacred beam, To waste in sleepless anguish the long night, Or slumbering, start, scar'd by some fearful dream! And sure if memory of keenest wrong That ever stung to agony the brain, If bitter thought of all my former pain, If rival beauties, or if absence long, Might aught have done, my hope had not been vain : Yet vainly I have hop'd! Again I see The faithless and the fair; my throbbing heart Resigns itself once more a slave to thee; And feels from short repose severer smart. R. A. D. SONNET. Written in a blank leaf of a Lady's book of Poems. BY THEOPHILUS SWIFT, ESQ. ALL in a rose-bud infant PITY lay : 4 Heaven's liquid lustres that impearl the morn, Bathed the sweet babe, that weeping seem'd to say, "Ah Senfibility, how sharp thy thorn! "But ah! how sweetly sharp !"-The tear-born child, Pathos embraced, and Rapture rush'd to claim, And Genius waved his sunny locks, and smil'd, And Fancy with her wand of wonders came. Embosom'd in the rose the babe they found :In Wit's rich mantle of ætherial hues, They laid it, breathing purple airs around : Then kiss'd, and call'd it" VIRTUE'S FAIREST MUSE." E'er since the soft-ey'd cherub sings in tears, Blooms a new Grace, and Sappho's person wears. SONNET. ON VISITING THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND. FIVE years have past since here I saw thee borne, But sky-born thoughts of consolation greet: In holy hope that we shall shortly meet. R. A. D. SONNET. To the Memory of the Rev. Dr. Henry Leslie, Rector of Tandragie, in the County of Armagh, Ireland, who departed this Life, February 16, 1803. BY THE REV. H. BOYD. LITTLE I thought, when, on the morn, that shone But thou wert ripe for bliss; the numerous train, Where the good shepherds round their master throng. WRITTEN FEBRUARY 17. The author had (on a visit to Dr. Leslie on New Year's Day) presented him with an almanack. |