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    Down their steep sides mad torrents forced their way , Sweeping detached huge stones mingled among * The waters .-- ^——From a Cavern ' s gloomy depths I heard this strife and war of elements : Death in gigantic form before the cave Did face me ; and me thought that he did stand Erect , and that his head he shook , the while

    With bony finger pointing out to me . Nature ' s extermination . Suddenly Thy rays , oh Sun ! burst thro' the flitting clouds , Shewing thy disk resplendent in blue heav ' n—The horrid tempest saw , and shrunk away ; The fearful , grisly phantoms disappeared . But ah ! What signs of grief and woe the storm Has left upon the devastated plains ! Torn , wither'd , bare , and of their fruit bereft .

    Those vines , before so gracefully bowed down 'Neath their rich burden ; and the luscious grapes , Whose juicy freshness did give augury Of gen ' rous wine , scattered all o ' er the soil , Trampled unknowingly by passing herds ; While , stupified and dumb , the husbandman Them contemplates , and in his sorrow groans . — Meanwhile , dishevelled and with weeping pale , Nature implores th . ee , Sun , and hails with joy

    The rays that dry her tears ; thou cheerest her , And she is comforted ; and once again She makes fresh promise of new fruits and flowers . The aspect of all things is changed !—True , true , All that is earthly changes—perishes ! But , thou eternal Splendour , dost not thou Change also ?— Never ?—Ah , the day will come When God his countenance divine shall hide

    Even from thee ; and then thou wilt fall down Into the ancient void of nothingness : No longer then will gorgeous retinue Of clouds accompany thy evening blaze Illumining the sea ! No longer then

    Aurora , with a borrowed ray adorned , Will step forth in the East and so announce Thy coming!—Yet thou may ' st in thy career Glory—thou canst ! alas ! that / alone Have had no days of brightness and of youth To glory in I That / alone behold Glory and happiness , but taste them not ; For mournful , mute , they are to soul like mine With grief o v erburden * J . In the morn of life No pleasant Sun did shine on me ; and now , In weariness , I have al length attained Life ' s evening , sighing only for the night To cover me with darkness and with death .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/35/