HAIL , Fancy, hail! ungovernable pow’r,
And tell my bosom how thy mimic art,
Out-trav’lling time, can in one fleeting hour
From clime to clime transplant the throbbing heart.
O’er me, I know, all uncontroll’d thy reign,
From hope, to hope, with thee I fearless range,
Till languid nature can no more sustain
Thy pow’r tyrannic, and delusive change.
‘Tis thine each visionary scene to trace,
And whisper bliss, alas! we ne’er may know;
Awhile with tears thou dew’st the pensive face,
And rack’st the senses with imagin’d woe.
With flatt’ring scenes thou canst my bosom sway,
While roving thoughts with dreams of glory swell;
Nor can my eyes descry the fairy way
That leads me wand’ring to thy mystic cell.
Yet onward still with anxious step I tread,
While the mind soaring each steep hill surveys,
Th’ a?rial vision flits around my head,
And exiles, wisdom, all thy glimm’ring rays!
Yet unsubdu’d I woo bright Fancy’s smile,
A willing captive at thy air-built shrine;
Imploring thee, fair Goddess, to beguile
All hours of loneliness with aid divine!
(Emma Lyon)
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