1.
SACRED Retirement! friend to ev’ry muse,
Come, aid my pen, a flow’ry wreath to weave,
Gay fancy, deck it with thy brightest hues,
And let my verse thy liveliest tints receive.
2.
This is the time for silence and repose,
In spangled lustre night resumes her throne;
Lost, for a while, the sense of all his woes,
The pensive sufferer forgets to moan.
3.
Lost in oblivion in the arms of sleep,
He dreams of bliss, alas! for ever fled;
But, on the morrow, painful wakes to weep,
And finds, with grief, each flatt’ring hope is dead.
4.
Majestic Night! pale contemplation’s scene,
The mind is rested from the cares of day,
And through the azure of the blue serene
Imagination wings her airy way.
5.
Lightly she traverses the spangl’d sky,
Midst the bright orbs attendant on the sun;
Then upon earth she deigns again to fly,
And peaceful rests, her wild excursion done.
6.
Then sweetly roving in sequester’d groves,
Beside the murmuring of a gentle rill,
When not a breath the lofty poplar moves,
And all around is peaceful, silent, still.
7.
When, faintly cheering is the moon’s pale beam,
Which shines around with gentle modest rays,
Which shews the willow nodding o’er the stream,
And o’er the rill with half-form’d shadow plays.
8.
Yes, sweet seclusion! undisturb’d retreat!
I court thy influence, I hail thy shade,
The cooling grove, the simple, rustic seat,
Th’ extensive view of valley, hill, and glade.
9.
How blest the mind which sweetly thus retires,
Whose high-born thoughts contemplative may rise,
To that First Cause who every thought inspires,
Who form’d the soul an inmate of the skies.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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