1.
WHEN changing Fancy waves her airy wand,
And o’er the mind extends her brilliant reign,
Beauty’s ideal forms, a floating band,
Swim in bright circles through the magic train.
2.
What sweet ideas thus inspire the mind,
When beauty reigns in all it’s vivid hues,
By Nature’s hand each fairy tint defin’d
Adorns the rosy nymph of fair Vaucluse.
3.
For sure the Goddess of the lovely Fount,
Angelic Laura’s sweet celestial shade,
Ne’er view’d a fairer rose bloom on the mount;
Ne’er pluck’d a sweeter flow’ret from the glade.
4.
Ah! sure the shade which haunts Vaucluse’s Bower’s,
Which taught the rill to murmur thro’ the vale,
With her fair hand has cull’d this Queen of Flow’rs,
And borne it here to ornament the Dale.
5.
And if in Arno’s vale amid the gloom,
An ancient Tower it’s ivied head uprears,
Ah! surely such a flow’ret there must bloom,
There drink the modest ev’ning’s pearly tears.
6.
But ah! transported from it’s native vale,
And call’d to flourish in these northern skies,
Though it inhale the Zephyrs of the Dale,
To fair Vauclusa lost, it droops and dies.
7.
But lovely Laura views her beauteous flow’r,
And flies to save it, on the yielding skies;
Again she bears it to her Petrarch’s bow’r,
And vernal breezes cheer the fading prize.
8.
And thus frail Man, when drooping here on earth,
Sees the last moment which to life is given,
Reviving Nature feels a second birth,
And Angels bear him to his native Heav’n.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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