t~c iiliing i1ut.
LooJt yonder, with delighted heart and eye,
On t.hoee low eotta.gee that shine so bright
(Each with"ita garden plot of smiling green),
&bed in the ~lory of the aettin~ enn l
But he ia partmg-fading-day 11 over-- Y onder he hAstens to diffuse new life.
Oh, for a wiug to raise me up from earth,
Nearer, and yel. more near, to the bright orb,
That unreatrain'd.I still might follow him!
Then should I see, in one unvarying glow
OC deathleae evenib~latbe reposing world
Beneath me-the · kindling-tbe sweet vales,
Beyond the billa, Mleep in the soft beama ;
The silver streamlet, at the silent touch
Of heavenly light, tr4IlB6gured into gold,
.Flowing in brightness inexpreaaible I
Nothing to atop or stay my mlike motion!
The rug~ed hiU, with ita Wi:fd cliffil, in vain
Would J'lle to hide the BUD; in vt.iD. would strive
To check my glorious coune; the aea already,
With ita illumined bays, that buru beneath
The lord of day, before tbe a&tQniabed eyes
Opens ita bosom-and be seems at la.at
Just sinking-No-a power unfelt before-
An impulae indeacribable, succeeds I
Onward, entr&noed, I hAste to driult tbe bea.ms
Of the unfadiog light-before me day-
And night left still behind-and overhel\d
Wide heaveD-and under me the apreading sea I
A glorious vision, while the setting sun
I s lingering! Oh, to the spirit's 11.ight,
How faint and feeble are material wings I
Yet anch our nature is, that when the l&rk,
IDgh over us, unseen, in the blue •ky
Tbrille his h~art-piercin~ song, we feel ourselves
Preas up from earth, as twere in l'lvalry ,-
And wheu above the savage hill of pioea,
The eagle sweeps with outspread wings,-and when
The crane punues, high off, hie homew&rd patl1 1
Flying o'er watery moors aud wide lakea lonely l
Traml«Ud from Goe/M. ,A NSUR.
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