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And the bard's prophetic rage

: Animate a future age.

Child of sorrow, child of pain,

Never may I smile again,

If till all-subduing death

Close these eyes, and stop this breath,

Ever I forget to raise

My grateful songs to Urien's praise !

LII.

ODE TO THE CUCKO0.

LOGAN.

HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove!

Thou messenger of spring!

Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,

And woods thy welcome sing.

What time the daisy decks the green,

Thy certain voice we hear;

Hast thou a star to guide thy path,

Or mark the rolling year?

Delightful visitant! with thee

I hail the time of flowers,

And hear the sound of music sweet

From birds among the bowers.

The school-boy, wandering through the wood

To pull the primrose gay,

Starts, the new voice of Spring to hear,

And imitates thy lay.

What time the pea puts on the bloom,

! Thou fliest thy vocal vale,

An annual guest in other lands,

Another Spring to hail.

Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green,

Thy sky is ever clear;

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,

No winter in thy year!

O could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring.

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Ah, with what joy did I behold

The flower of beauty fair unfold!

And fear'd no storm to blast thy bloom,

Or bring thee to an early tomb!

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