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SYLPH OF AUTUMN. BT WASHINGTON ALLSTON. And now, in accents deep
and low, Like voice of fondly-cherished wo, The Sylph of Autumn
sad: Though I may not of raptures sing, That graced the gentle song
of Spring, lake Summer, playful pleasures bring, Thy youthful heart
to glad; Yet still may I in hope aspire Thy heart to touch with
chaster fire, And purifying love: For I with vision high and holy,
And spell of quick'ning melancholy, Thy soul from sublunary folly
First raised to worlds above. What though be mine the treasures
fair Of purple grape and yellow pear, 40 THE SYLPH OF AUTUMN. And
fruits of various hue, And harvests rich of golden grain, That
dance in waves along the plain To merry song of reaping swain,
Beneath the welkin blue; With these I may not urge my suit, Of
Summer's patient toil the fruit, For mortal purpose given; Nor may
it fit my sober mood To sing of sweetly murmuring flood, Or dyes of
many-coloured wood, That mock the bow of heaven. But, know, 'twas
mine the secret power That waked thee at the midnight hour In bleak
November's reign: 'Twas I the spell around thee cast, When thou
didst hear the hollow blast In murmurs tell of pleasures past, That
ne'er would come again: And led thee, when the storm was o'er, To
hear the sullen ocean roar, By dreadful calm opprest; Which, still,
though not a breeze was there, lH ttountain-billows heaved in aj if
a living thing it were, That strove in vain for rest 'Twas I, when
thou, subdued by wo, Didst watch the leaves descending slow To each
a moral gave; And as they moved in mournful train, With rustling
sound, along the plain, Taught them to sing a seraph's strain Of
peace within the grave. 42 THE SYLPH OF AUTUMN. And then, upraised
thy stream...
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