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Holy Peace, though born above,
Daughter of Innocence and Love,
Quits her throne and mansion bright,
Her crown of stars and robe of light,
Serene, in gentle smiles array'd,
To dwell beneath his palm-tree shade.
Hail, meek angel! awful guest!

Still pour thy radiance o'er my breast!"
Pride and Hate in courts may shine: [thine!
The shepherd's calm and blameless tent is

Softly, softly breathe your numbers;
And wrap his wearied soul in slumbers!
Gentle sleep, becalm his breast,
And close his eyes in healing rest!
Descend, celestial visions, ye who wait,
God's ministering powers, at heaven's eternal gate!
Ye, who nightly vigils keep,
And rule the silent realms of sleep,
Exalt the just to joys refined,

And plunge in woe the guilty mind,
Descend!—Oh, waft him to the skies,
And open all heaven's glories to his eyes!
Beyond yon starry roof, by seraphs trod,

Where light's unclouded fountains blaze;
Where choirs immortal hymn their God,
Intranced in ecstasy of ceaseless praise.
Angels, heal his anguish!
Your harps and voices join!

His grief to bliss shall languish,
When soothed by sounds divine.

Behold, with dawning joy each feature glows!
See, the blissful tear o'erflows!-

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The fiend is fled!-Let music's rapture rise:
Now harmony, thy every nerve employ :
Shake the dome, and pierce the skies:
Wake him, wake him into joy.

What power can every passion's throe control?
What power can boast the charm divine
To still the tempest of the soul?
Celestial harmony, that mighty charm is thine!
She, heavenly born, came down to visit earth,
When from God's eternal throne

The beam of all-creative wisdom shone,
And spake fair order into birth.

At wisdom's call she robed yon glittering skies,
Attuned the spheres, and taught consenting orbs
Angels rapt in wonder stood;

[to rise; And saw that all was fair, and all was good. "Twas then, ye sons of God, in bright array Ye shouted o'er creation's day:

Then, kindling into joy,

The morning stars together sung;

And through the vast ethereal sky

Seraphic hymns and loud hosannas rung.

DR. BROWN.

FROM THE MOST EMINENT

BRITISH POETS.

PART II.

Moral and Preceptive.

Mark! with what care the fair one's critic eye
Scans o'er her dress, &c. p. 345.

Chiswick:

PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM;

FOR CHARLES S. ARNOLD, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

1823.

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ELEGANT EXTRACTS.

PART II.

Moral and Preceptive.

IMMORTALITY :

OR,

THE CONSOLATION OF HUMAN LIFE.

A Monody.

Animi natura videtur

Atque animæ claranda meis jam versibus esse
Et metus ille foras præceps Acheruntis agendus
Funditus, humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo,
Omnia suffundus mortis nigrore.

Lucr.

WHEN black-browed Night her dusky mantle spread,

And wrapt in solemn gloom the sable sky; When soothing Sleep her opiate dews had shed, And seal'd in silken slumbers every eye; My wakeful thoughts admit no balmy rest, Nor the sweet bliss of soft oblivion share; But wakeful woe distracts my aching breast, My heart the subject of corroding care: From haunts of men with wandering steps and slow I solitary steal, and soothe my pensive woe.

VOL. I.

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