IN THE STRAND;

BY T. BENSLEY AND SON, BOLT COURT,

FLEET STREET.

1816.

OH could my mind, unfolded in my page,

Enlighten climes and mould a future age;
There as it glowed, with noblest frenzy fraught,
Dispense the treasures of exalted thought;

To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart,

Oh could it still, thro' each succeeding year,

My life, my manners, and my name endear;
And, when the poet sleeps in silent dust,

Still hold communion with the wise and just!

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