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Rh To see thee moves the scorner's mirth:

But tears in Hope's averted eye

Lament that even thou hadst birth—

Unfit to govern, live, or die. February 12, 1815. [First published, 1831.]

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

O Lachrymarum fons, tenero sacros

Ducentium ortus ex animo: quater

Felix! in imo qui scatentem

Pectore te, pia Nympha, sensit." Poemata. [Motto to "The Tear," Poetical Works, 1898, i. 49.]

1.

not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,

When the glow of early thought declines in Feeling's dull decay;

'Tis not on Youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast,

But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere Youth itself be past.