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Petherton Bridge, An Elegy.
PETHERTON BRIDGE , AN ELEGY .
INSCRIBED TO THE REV . MR . BEAN . BY MR . GERRARD .
O BEAN , whose fond connubial days A beauteous infant race attend , Say , wilt thou once more aid my lays , And join the patron to the friend . But not o'er bright Aonian plains , Enraptur'd as we us'd to roam ; The Muse eachjoyous thought restrains , And calls her
wing'd ideas home . The wedded pair for children pray , They come , fair blessings , from the skies ; w hat raptures gild the halcyon day ! Whatjoys in distant propect lies ! But , ah ! enamour'd as they view The smiling , hopeful , infant train ,
Unseen Misfortune marks his due , Unheard he threats the heart with pain . Had sad disaster ne'er ensnar'd The soft , the innocent , and young , The tender Muse had gladly spar'd The little heroes of her song . . Seestthou the limpid current lide
g Beneath that bridge , my hapless theme , Where brambles fringe its verdant side , And willows tremble o'er the stream ? From Petherton it takes its name , From whence two smiling infants stray'd , Led by the stream they hi ther came , And on the flow'ry margin play'd .
Sweet victims ! must your short-liv'd day So soon extinguish in the wave ? And point the setting sun its way , That glimmers o'er your watry grave .
As- each , by childish fancy led , Cropt the broad daisies as they sprung ; Lay stretch'd along the verdant bed , And sweetly ply'd the lisping tongue ;' Lo ! from the spray-deserted steep , Where either way the twigs divide , The one roll'd headlong to the deep , And piung'd beneath the closing tide .
The other saw , and from the land ( While Nature imag'd strange distress ) Stretch'd o ' er the brink his little hand , The fruitless signal of redress .
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Petherton Bridge, An Elegy.
PETHERTON BRIDGE , AN ELEGY .
INSCRIBED TO THE REV . MR . BEAN . BY MR . GERRARD .
O BEAN , whose fond connubial days A beauteous infant race attend , Say , wilt thou once more aid my lays , And join the patron to the friend . But not o'er bright Aonian plains , Enraptur'd as we us'd to roam ; The Muse eachjoyous thought restrains , And calls her
wing'd ideas home . The wedded pair for children pray , They come , fair blessings , from the skies ; w hat raptures gild the halcyon day ! Whatjoys in distant propect lies ! But , ah ! enamour'd as they view The smiling , hopeful , infant train ,
Unseen Misfortune marks his due , Unheard he threats the heart with pain . Had sad disaster ne'er ensnar'd The soft , the innocent , and young , The tender Muse had gladly spar'd The little heroes of her song . . Seestthou the limpid current lide
g Beneath that bridge , my hapless theme , Where brambles fringe its verdant side , And willows tremble o'er the stream ? From Petherton it takes its name , From whence two smiling infants stray'd , Led by the stream they hi ther came , And on the flow'ry margin play'd .
Sweet victims ! must your short-liv'd day So soon extinguish in the wave ? And point the setting sun its way , That glimmers o'er your watry grave .
As- each , by childish fancy led , Cropt the broad daisies as they sprung ; Lay stretch'd along the verdant bed , And sweetly ply'd the lisping tongue ;' Lo ! from the spray-deserted steep , Where either way the twigs divide , The one roll'd headlong to the deep , And piung'd beneath the closing tide .
The other saw , and from the land ( While Nature imag'd strange distress ) Stretch'd o ' er the brink his little hand , The fruitless signal of redress .