Let the Nightingale still be renown'd for her song,
The Eagle for strength, and for softness the Dove,
Higher praise to the Baya of India belongs,
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Lord, who in mercy's tender tone
Invitest every child of dust,
To seek protection from thy throne,
And in thy guardian grace to trust.
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Where may zeal due succour find,
Man, for thy unguarded mind?
To shield thee, when temptations reign,
From folly's snare, and vice's bane?
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Dear nymph of a feeling, and delicate mind!
Whose eye the rash tears ...
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Dear Disputant! whose mind would boldly soar,
And all theology's domain explore!
I love the candid fervency of soul,
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_Her Recent Publication--Practical Piety._
Hail! hallow'd sister! of a saintly band!
Whose hearts in homage to their God expand!
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Friend of my vernal and autumnal day,
In life's gay bloom, and in its slow decay:
Sargent! who leav'st thy hermit's studious cell,
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Thy fav'rite Prelate haste, my verse! to greet
Adorning nature in his sylvan seat!
His southern hermit, his unchanging friend,
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AN EPISTLE TO HENRIETTA OF LAVANT.
Hail Felpham! Hail! in youth my favorite scene!
First in my heart of villages marine!
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