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5 Literary Gazette, 19th January, 1822, Pages 44-45

ORIGINAL POETRY.

POETIC SKETCHES. Sketch Second. "Oh, Power of love! so fearful, yet so fair! Life of our life on earth, yet kin to care!"

lay mid trees, a little quiet nest Like to the stock dove's, and the honeysuckle Spread o'er the cottage roof, while the red rose Grew round the casement, where the thick-leaved vine Wove a luxuriant curtain, with a wreath, A bridal wreath of silver jessamine;— A soft turf lay before the door, o'erhung With a huge walnut-tree's green canopy, Encircled round with flowers; and, like a queen Of the young roses, stood a bright-cheeked Girl, With smile of Summer and with lips of Spring, A shape of air, and footsteps of the wind. She looked all hope and gladness; but her eyes, Her deep blue eyes, which seemed as they did owe Their tints to the first vi’let April brings, Had yet sad meanings in them ; 'twas not grief, But as a presage of some ill to come.— She stood upon the turf, while round her flew