VERSES
WRITTEN IN A GROTTO
In a Wood on the Side of the River Dart,
IN DEVONSHIRE.
Tell me, thou grotto! o'er whose brow are seenProjecting plumes, and shades of deep'ning green,—While not a sound disturbs thy stony hall,While all thy dewy drops forget to fall,—Why canst thou not thy soothing charms impart,And shed thy quiet o'er this beating heart?Tell me, thou richly-painted river! tell,That on thy mirror'd plane dost mimic...
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