1.
WHATE’ER Arcadian scenes in fancy’s dreams,
Delight the eye and rise before the view,
Stupendous rocks, wild woods, meand’ring streams,
And lakes adorn’d with flow’rs of every hue;
2.
Whate’er romantic visions swarm around,
Live in the thought and swell the Poet’s brain,
Here , all their beauties, all their charms are found,
Here Science dwells, and here the Muses reign.
3.
This beauteous Cot, bright blooming in the Vale,
Embellish’d and improv’d, by taste refined;
This is the happy spot, the lovely Dale,
Where Nature’s beauties are with Art’s combined.
4.
Wild, o’er the house unnumbered Roses stray,
And fragrant woodbine scents the evening breeze;
Soft o’er the flower the morning Zephyrs play,
And woodland strains wild warble from the Trees.
5.
High on the hill in front a wood appears,
Each morn bright glowing with the eastern ray,
Where stands the oak respectable in years,
Dispersing shade when glows the Summer day.
6.
When gentle Evening breathes a placid calm,
And in the western sky the Sun retires,
The softened air diffusing odorous balm,
And the wood gleaming with reflected fires.
7.
Bright through the opening boughs a sudden ray,
With richer tints adorns the livelier green,
The trembling beam of slow-departing day,
Which softly sinks into the twilight scene.
8.
How tranquil, calm, and lovely is the Dale,
When Cynthia refulgent sheds her light,
When o’er the solemn wood, the midnight gale
In whispering sounds disturbs the peace of night.
9.
How bright on Summer’s morn thy sunny smile,
When Phoebus glows o’er all the flow’ry glade,
When youth’s high hopes the happy hours beguile,
And Life’s wide landscape knows no gloomy shade.
10.
Oft have I rov’d thy flowery scenes among,
When Morn’s bright beams empearl’d the glist’ning dew,
When each gay songster rais’d the tuneful song
And the dark wood was ting’d with Autumn’s hue.
11.
The gentle gale reviving fragrance breathes,
As soft it sighs upon the morning rose,
While creeping clematis and woodbine wreaths,
Blooming with life, their opening charms disclose.
12.
Yon rustic chair, beneath th’ Acacia’s shade,
Invites the weary to a fragrant seat;
There has the muse her morning visit paid,
And struck her lyre in this admired retreat;
13.
While od’rous gales, and whisp’ring zephyrs play
Wildly luxurious o’er th’ Arcadian scene,
When glowing Summer yields to Autumns sway,
Who paints with yellower tints the vernal green.
14.
How oft in this my favourite rustic seat,
Thomson’s sweet muse beguiles the morning hour,
While Sarah, in some undisturbed retreat,
Conducts her youthful friends to Learning’s bower.
15.
With them she wanders o’er the classic page,
O’er the wild borders of Castalia’s stream;
Records the wonders of a former age,
Unfolds the sage’s thought, the Poet’s dream.
16.
When Evening’s hue adorns the heavenly plain,
And each gay songster seeks the nightly bower,
Maria’s voice, in wild and airy strains,
Melodious sounds, to charm the twilight hour.
17.
And of her voice, whose soft celestial notes
Equal the music of th’ Eolian lyre,
In the calm breeze of evening wildly floats,
When Cynthia’s beams romantic thoughts inspire.
18.
Adieu! ye flowery vales! ye bowers of song!
Romantic sweets and blooming charms adieu!
Oft shall I rove in thought thy scenes among,
When beaming Fancy shall these days renew.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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