This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...in their servile toil. Around she gazed, as in her haughtiness She thought that God had form'd this living pomp Of woodland, stream, and rock, her height of soul To pamper, that to welcome her the earth Attired its breathing brightness, and the sun Only on her look'd from his azure sphere. MILMAN. DESCRIPTION OF A ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...in their servile toil. Around she gazed, as in her haughtiness She thought that God had form'd this living pomp Of woodland, stream, and rock, her height of soul To pamper, that to welcome her the earth Attired its breathing brightness, and the sun Only on her look'd from his azure sphere. MILMAN. DESCRIPTION OF A SECLUDED BEAUTY. Dove of the wilderness, thy snowy wing In slumber droops not; Lilian, thou alone, Mid the deep quiet, wakest. Dost thou rove, Idolatress of yon majestic moon, That, like a crystal-throned queen in heaven, Seems with her present deity to hush To beauteous adoration all the earth? Might seem the solemn silent mountain tops Stand up and worship; the translucent streams Down the' hill sides glittering cherish the pure light Beneath the shadowy foliage o'er them flung At intervals; the lake, so silver white, Glistens, all indistinct the snowy swans Bask in the radiance cool: doth Lilian muse To that apparent queen her vesper hymn? Nursling of solitude, her infant couch Never did mother watch; within the grave She slept unwaking; scornful turn'd aloof v Caswallon, of those pure instinctive joys By fathers felt, when playful infant grace, Touch'd with a feminine softness, round the heart Winds its light maze of undefined delight, Contemptuous; he with haughty joy beheld His boy, fair Malwyn, him in bossy shield Rock'd proudly, him upbore to mountain steep, Fierce and undaunted, for their dangerous nest To battle with the eagle's clamorous brood. But she the while from human tenderness Estranged, and gentler feelings that light up The cheek of youth with rosy joyous smile, Like a forgotten lute, play'd on alone By chance-caressing airs, amid the wild Beauteously pale, and sadly playful grew, A lonely child, by not one human heart Beloved, ..
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