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Literary Gazette, 1st June, 1822, Pages 346-347

ORIGINAL POETRY. POETIC SKETCHES.

Second Series — Sketch the Fifth. MR. MARTIN'S PICTURE OF CLYTIE.

----------Greece, These are thy graceful memories, the dreams That hallowed thy groves, and over things Inanimate shed visionary life, When every flower had some romantic tale Linked with its sweetness, when the winds, the streams Breathed poetry and love. ---

It was a beautiful embodied thought, A dream of the fine painter, one of those That pass by moonlight o'er the soul, and flit 'Mid the dim shades of twilight, when the eye Grows tearful with its ecstasy. There stood A dark haired Grecian girl, whose eyes were raised, With that soft look love teaches, to the sky— One hand pressed to her brow, as she would gaze Upon the sun undazzled—'twas that nymph, The slighted. May minstrel look