1.
HAIL , brilliant Fancy, wildly-pleasing power,
Whose forms still vary with the changing hour;
To worlds unseen thou wingst thy rapid flight,
Through the clear azure, in the train of night.
2.
As quick as lightning thro’ the summer skies,
Thy airy form thro’ earth and ocean flies,
Skims thro’ the expanse of all the starry plains,
And joins with angels in seraphic strains.
3.
In smiling spring, within thy fairy bowers,
On Shakespeare’s tomb thou strew’st unfading flowers,
Then bidst them bloom upon thy vot’ry’s grave,
And deck romantic Avon’s murmuring wave.
4.
How soft the strain when thou wilt touch the lyre,
Thy light chords tremble with poetic fire;
Th’ enraptur’d thought, with one expansive sweep,
Soars to the skies, or sinks below the deep.
5.
On mossy borders of melifluent streams,
Where dewy rosebuds shine with morning beams;
When vocal music charms the woodland scene,
There dost thou wander, beauteous and serene.
6.
Midst wintry snows on Alpine’s tow’ring height,
Wild and impetuous thy rapid flight;
In awful majesty enthron’d in clouds,
Where the hoar mount his head in darkness shrouds.
7.
Thus ever changing are thy brilliant forms,
Bright glows the bosom thy enchantment warms;
And, when attemper’d by cool judgment’s sway,
In science’ path the cultur’d mind may stray.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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