The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
And waft away the rising storm;
Continue thus thy magic power,
And charm for once the heavy hour,
From present ill the Fancy bear
The painful sufferings into air,
There catch the spirits light and free,
That leave me bless’d with them and thee.
WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD,
ON SEEING A NUMBER OF CATTLE GRAZING IN IT.
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BE still my heart, and let this moving sight
Whisper a moral to each future lay;
Let this convince how like the lightning’s flight
Is earthly pageantry’s precarious stay.
Within this place of consecrated trust
The neighbouring herds their daily pasture find;
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And idly bounding o’er each hallow’d bust,
Form a sad prospect to the pensive mind.
Whilst o’er the graves thus carelessly they tread,
Allur’d by hunger to the deed profane,
They crop the verdure rising from the bed
Of some fond parent, or some love-sick swain.
No more does vengeance to revenge the deed
Lodge in their breasts, or vigour aid the blow;
The power to make the sad offenders bleed
The prostrate image ne’er again shall know.
Nor can the time-worn epitaph rehearse
The name or titles which its owner bore;
No more the sorrow lives within the verse,
For memory paints the moving scene no more.
Perhaps ‘tis one whose noble deeds attain’d
Honour and fame in time of hostile war;—
Whose arm the Captive’s liberty regain’d,
And stamp’d his valour with a glorious scar.
Alas! his widow might attend him here,