Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans/Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna, in 1829

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Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans
by Felicia Hemans

Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna, in 1829

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3055598Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans — Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna, in 1829Felicia Hemans

LINES WRITTEN FOR THE ALBUM AT ROSANNA,*^[1]IN 1829.

Oh! lightly tread through these deep chestnut-bowers,
    Where a sweet spirit once in beauty mov'd!
And touch with reverent hand these leaves and flowers,
    Fair things, which well a gentle heart hath lov'd!
A gentle heart, of love and grief th' abode,
Whence the bright stream of song in tear-drops flow'd.

And bid its memory sanctify the scene!
    And let th' ideal presence of the dead
Float round and touch the woods with softer green,
    And o'er the streams a charm, like moonlight, shed;
Through the soul's depths in holy silence felt—
A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt!

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* A beautiful place in the County of Wicklow, formerly the abode of the authoress of "Psyche."

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* A beautiful place in the County of Wicklow, formerly the abode of the authoress of "Psyche."

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