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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VERSES. BRITTEN TO A FRIEND 15th Sept. 1801. J5Y DOCTOR OGILVIE. Eheu, fugaces Posthume, Posthume, Labmitiir aimi! Hob. Ah Friend, we tread the downward road! The vale of life extends below, By Age, with leaden footstep trode, And sprinkled o'er with locks of snow. There, Winter's icy sceptre rear'd, Around, in pale assemblage, stand The time-worn cheek, the silver beard, The shrinking limbs, the palsied hand. All move in sight; and while they hail Our near approach;?within the shade, Dim lights that glimmer thro' the veil, Disclose the mansions of the dead. The Reverend William Duff, Minister of Favenan, Aberdeen- shire; the ingeniuu author of an Essay on Original Genius, in two volumes; and the beautiful Oriental Tale, entitUd, Xue History of Rhedi, the Hermit of Mount Ararat, andc. When Memory, o'er the busy past Rolls back her eye;?what forms are shown! Young airy shapes, too gay to last; A scene of bright illusion, ?gone! The freaks of Innocence, the play Of Youth, that with the passing hour Skims like the bee, from spray to spray; And sucks the sweets of every flower: At these, that tell of former days; Trembling with age, and bent with care We shake our heads;?yet fondly gaze; And envy joys we cannot share. Then, forward let us dart our sight, Beyond the forms by Fancy brought; Nor sink, within the double night Of helpless age, and gloomy thought. Together, let us stem the tide, On Hope's light barque, in triumph born; And mark, rejoicing, as we glide Thro' night, th' effulgent rays of morn. Together let us break the force, With Hope, our guardian, and our friend. Of ills combined to check our course; Or blackening clouds, that veil its end. With philosophic calm, the fate Be...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217306874
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021730687X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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