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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1854 Original Publisher: James Nichol Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BLAIR'S POEMS, THE GRAVE. While Some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the city, some the hermitage; Their aims as various, as the roads they take In journeying through life; -- -the task be mine, To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb; The appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travellers meet. -- Thy succours I implore, Eternal king! whose potent arm sustains The keys of Hell and Death. -- The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appall'd 10 Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes! Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos, ere the infant Sun Was roll'd together, or had tried his beams Athwart the gloom profound. -- The sickly taper, By glimmering through thy low-brow'd misty vaults (Furr'd round with mouldy damps, and ropy slime), Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. 20Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, 21 Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds: No other merriment, dull tree ! is thine. See yonder hallow'd fane -- the pious work Of names once famed, now dubious or forgot, And buried 'midst the wreck of things which were; s...

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