COLD Disappointment! by kind Heaven design’d,
To mend the heart, by softening the mind;
With brow severe to temper Fancy’s fire,
And, by afflicting, raise the wishes higher.
But oh! most needful is thy aid in youth,
When the gay senses, unrestrained by truth,
On bright Imagination’s airy wing,
Rove, unconfined where’ere the muses sing,
In bowers Elysian and abodes of bliss,
Ensullied pleasures in a world like this.
Then dost thou come to blast the op’ning flower,
And fade the bud which blossoms for an hour.
Go on, dread chast’ner of the human heart,
But let not Hope , at thy approach, depart;
Still let her deck with flowers thy stately form,
The sun-beam sparkling in the awful storm.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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