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TO SOLITUDE . Written in a Wood ^ Nov . 30 , * 8 o 6 . BY JOHN JACKSON .
HAIL Solitude ! still , dark , sequester ed gloom , Where silent bats and blinking owlets sleep , Where undisturbed the dangling wildflow ' rs bloom , And where the child of grief retires to weep I If I a faithful friend had never known , Had never * maurn'd his loss with grief sincere 1 If , turn'd by stern misanthropy to stone , Had never shed a sympathetic tear ;
If , bowM with age , * sad , fretful and forlorn , Each youthful pleasure hateful to my sight ; For thy still shade I'd leave the world in scorn , And hide my frailties in thy cheerless night . Far otherwise ! my longing anxious heart . In love with social joys , shrinks from thy view ; At friendship ' s call from thee I'd gladly part—Gladly Yd bid thy darksome shades adieu *
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THE ORPHAN . BY THE SAME *
Tveno parent to protect me , No one calls me love or friend ! All of some foul crime suspect me * ? Where shall all my sorrows end ? He f that ought to feed and clothe me , Worse than all the rest is he ; Mean and wretched , all men loathe me , Comfort I shall never see !
Winter comes and finds me naked ; Soon its storms shall lay me low ! I shall sleep nor more be waked , Till the last loud trump shall blow ! * ve no parent to protect me , No one calls me love ov friend ! AH of some foul crime suspect me ; Death shall all my sorrows end !
? Aperson in 21 mean habit , though innocent ; , is tftca ufJHJCUd of guilt * f The Overseer of the vqqv .