NATURE'S ADDRESS TO THE POET

AN APRIL MELODY. (TO MUSIC)

I'LL WEAR THY RINGS, SWEET JEWEL

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THE LION-FLAG OF ENGLAND

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THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT REDAN

LOUD LET THE TRIUMPH RING. (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC)

THE FALL OF THE BRAVE. ADDRESSED TO HIS BE-

VOL. I.

POEMS.

ART THOU A POET?

No classic tutor watched my lips,
Nor speech, with beauty fraught,
Refined my uncouth mother-tongue,
Or wooed my virgin thought.

I never cursed in college cell

The thought I could not brook,

Nor pored amid the antique page
For lore from musty book.

I never in the schools was made

A fool against my will,

Nor danced with dames in rich brocade

My studious hours to kill.

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