To Dissapointment

  1. 1Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway,
  2. 2That lov'st on withering blast to ride
  3. 3O'er fond Illusion's air-built pride.
  4. 4Sullen Spirit! Hence! Away!
  1. 5Where Avarice lurks in sordid cell,
  2. 6Or mad Ambition builds the dream,
  3. 7Or Pleasure plots th' unholy scheme
  4. 8>There with Guilt and Folly dwell!
  1. 9But oh! when Hope on Wisdom's wing
  2. 10Prophetic whispers pure delight,
  3. 11Be distant far thy cank'rous blight,
  4. 12Demon of envenom'd sting.
  1. 13Then haste thee, Nymph of balmy gales!
  2. 14Thy poet's prayer, sweet May! attend!
  3. 15'Mid her lovely native vales.
  4. 16Oh! place my parent and my friend
  5. 17'Mid her lovely native vales.
  1. 18Peace, that lists the woodlark's strains,
  2. 19Health, that breathes divinest treasures,
  3. 20Laughing Hours, and Social Pleasures
  4. 21Wait my friend in Cambria's plains.
  1. 22Affection there with mingled ray
  2. 23Shall pour at once the raptures high
  3. 24Of filial and maternal Joy;
  4. 25Haste thee then, delightful May!
  1. 26And oh! may Spring's fair flowerets fade,
  2. 27May Summer cease her limbs to lave
  3. 28In cooling stream, may Autumn grave
  4. 29Yellow o'er the corn-cloath'd glade;
  1. 30Ere, from sweet retirement torn,
  2. 31She seek again the crowded mart:
  3. 32Nor thou, my selfish, selfish heart
  4. 33Dare her slow return to mourn!