Occasioned by a Friend’s revisiting her native City, with her
infant Boy.
CEASE to flutter round my heart,
Hope too potent for expressing;
Can thy most tumultuous throbs,
Sooner bring the promis’d blessing?
Warm’d by friendship’s pure affection,
Soon to clasp its darling treasure;
All her joys around me gather,
Heighten’d by maternal pleasure.
On the wings of expectation,
Still too slow the moments fly;
Is there in the vast creation,
One so greatly blest as I?
Late the days were mark’d with sorrow,
Late the nights were mark’d with care;
Now the near anticipation,
Rises brighter from despair.
Lovely infant, smiling cherub,
Heav’n’s rich blessings thee attend;
And thro’ life’s ensuing moments,
May’st thou own thy early friend.
While each fond caress returning,
Friendship’s joys thou wilt improve;
Her maturer bliss enlivening,
With the charms of infant love.
Now o’er all the brightening prospect,
Dawns the longexpected day;
Which in one ecstatic moment,
Absent months can well repay.
Golden glows the wide horizon,
When the radiant orb of light
To the east his course advances,
From the ebon throne of night.
Lovely blooms the smiling landscape,
Fresher fragrance fills each flower;
Nature thro’ her whole dominion,
Owns his influence, feels his power.
So when expectation rising,
Cheers us with her ray benign;
How with ev’ry branch of sorrow,
Hope’s celestial tendrils twine.
Balmy odours round us playing,
From her opening blossoms rise;
Till the radiant morn expanding,
Not a cloud obscures the skies.
(Elizabeth Bath)
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