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'Till douds, that speak approaching night,
The vagrant's wanton eye surveys;
When trembling in its homeward flight
Forgiveness seeks—forgiveness prays.
The vagrant's wanton eye surveys;
When trembling in its homeward flight
Forgiveness seeks—forgiveness prays.
Thus I, by glitt'ring scenes estrang'd
When youthful fancy loves to roam;
The blaze expir'd, the picture chang'd,
Return with anguish to my home.
When youthful fancy loves to roam;
The blaze expir'd, the picture chang'd,
Return with anguish to my home.
Oh! pardon
Nor with that distant look reprove :
The child of error earnest pleads;
The child of error courts your love.
Blackett.
Nor with that distant look reprove :
The child of error earnest pleads;
The child of error courts your love.
Blackett.
The habit of dissipating every serious thought by a succession of agreeable sensations, is as fatal to happiness as to virtue; for when amusement is uniformly substituted for objects of moral and mental interest, we lose all that elevates our enjoyments above the scale of childish pleasures; each individual learns to consider himself as the sole spectator of the great drama of life; and he sits and beholds, laughs and mocks, enjoys or yawns through a worthless existence; then sinks into the grave despised and forgotten. Anna Mar
