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8 To the Countess of Eglintoun*
When these are in the human bosam nurst,
Can peace reside in dwellings so accurst ?
Unlike, O EGLlNTuUN! thy happy bread,.
Calm and serene, enjoys the heavenly guest;
Prom the tumultuous rule of pasiions tree'd^
Pure in thy thought, and spotless in thy deed.
In vermes rich, ingoodness unconfin'd»
Thou shin'st a fair example to thy kind;
Sincere and equal to thy neighbour's name,
How Iwift to praise, how guiltless to defame ?
Bold in thy pvesence Basojuiness appears, .
And backward Merif loses all its fears.
Supremely blest by heav'n, heav'n'srichest grace,
Confest is thine, an early blooming race.
Whose pleading smiles shall guardian wisdom arm,
Divine Instru&ion! taught os thee to charm.
What transports shall they to thy (oul impart ?
(The conscious transports of a parent's heart)
When thoubeholdest them of each grace polled,
And sighingjouths imploring to be blest ;
After thy image!orm'd, with charms like thine.
Or in the visit, or the dance to thine.
Thrice happy! whosucceed their mother's praistr,
The lovely EGLlNTOUXSof other days.
Mean while peruse the following tender fcenes,
And listen to thy native poet's {trains.
In ancientgarb the home-bred museappears,
The garb our muses wore in former years;
As in a glass ressefted, here behold
How smiling goodsiess look'd in days of old.
Nor blush to read where beauty's praise is showa,
Or vertuous love, the likeness of thy own;
W hile 'midst the various gifts that gracious heaven,
To thee, irTwhom it is well pleas'd, has given,
I.etthis, O EGLINlOUNl' delight thee mod,
T'cnjoy that Innocencejthe world has lost.
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When these are in the human bosam nurst,
Can peace reside in dwellings so accurst ?
Unlike, O EGLlNTuUN! thy happy bread,.
Calm and serene, enjoys the heavenly guest;
Prom the tumultuous rule of pasiions tree'd^
Pure in thy thought, and spotless in thy deed.
In vermes rich, ingoodness unconfin'd»
Thou shin'st a fair example to thy kind;
Sincere and equal to thy neighbour's name,
How Iwift to praise, how guiltless to defame ?
Bold in thy pvesence Basojuiness appears, .
And backward Merif loses all its fears.
Supremely blest by heav'n, heav'n'srichest grace,
Confest is thine, an early blooming race.
Whose pleading smiles shall guardian wisdom arm,
Divine Instru&ion! taught os thee to charm.
What transports shall they to thy (oul impart ?
(The conscious transports of a parent's heart)
When thoubeholdest them of each grace polled,
And sighingjouths imploring to be blest ;
After thy image!orm'd, with charms like thine.
Or in the visit, or the dance to thine.
Thrice happy! whosucceed their mother's praistr,
The lovely EGLlNTOUXSof other days.
Mean while peruse the following tender fcenes,
And listen to thy native poet's {trains.
In ancientgarb the home-bred museappears,
The garb our muses wore in former years;
As in a glass ressefted, here behold
How smiling goodsiess look'd in days of old.
Nor blush to read where beauty's praise is showa,
Or vertuous love, the likeness of thy own;
W hile 'midst the various gifts that gracious heaven,
To thee, irTwhom it is well pleas'd, has given,
I.etthis, O EGLINlOUNl' delight thee mod,
T'cnjoy that Innocencejthe world has lost.
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