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LOVE AND MADNESS;

AN ELEGY.

WRITTEN IN 1795.

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LOVE AND MADNESS;

AN ELEGY.

WRITTEN IN 1795.

HARK! from the battlements of yonder tower *

The folemn bell has toll'd the midnight hour!

Rous'd from drear vifions of diftemper'd fleep,

Poor B- -k wakes-in folitude to weep!

"Ceafe, Mem'ry, ceafe (the friendlefs mourner cry'd),

To probe the bosom too severely tried!

Oh! ever ceafe, my penfive thoughts, to stray

Through the bright fields of Fortune's better day :

* Warwick Castle.

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When youthful Hope, the mufic of the mind,

Tun'd all its charms, and E-n was kind!

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"Yet, can I ceafe, while glows this trembling frame,

In fighs to fpeak thy melancholy name!

I hear thy spirit wail in every storm!

In midnight fhades I view thy paffing form!

Pale as in that fad hour, when doom'd to feel,
Deep in thy perjur'd heart the bloody fteel!

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"Demons of Vengeance! ye at whofe command I grafp'd the sword with more than woman's hand, Say ye, did Pity's trembling voice controul,

Or horror damp the purpose of my foul?
No!

my wild heart fat fmiling o'er the plan,

Till Hate fulfill'd what baffled Love began!

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