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POEMS.

(PUBLISHED 1830.)

VOL. I.

B

POEMS.

CLARIBEL.

A MELODY.

WHERE Claribel low-lieth

The breezes pause and die,

Letting the rose-leaves fall: But the solemn oak tree sigheth,

Thick-leaved, ambrosial,

With an ancient melody

Of an inward agony, Where Claribel low-lieth.

At eve the beetle boometh

Athwart the thicket lone :

At noon the wild bee hummeth

About the moss'd headstone :

At midnight the moon cometh,
And looketh down alone.
Her song the lintwhite swelleth,
The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,

The fledgling throstle lispeth,

The slumbrous wave outwelleth, The babbling runnel crispeth,

The hollow grot replieth

Where Claribel low-lieth.

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