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"Commemorative Feelings, or Miscellaneous Poems." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/WalkSComme. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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SYMPATHY.
AH! I said to my heart, "Go to sleep,"While in Lethe I bathed every wound,Then set Reason her vigils to keep,And to guard it from dangers around.
Long softly entranced had it lain,Or to Friendship or Love both unknownFor their efforts I check'd, nor in vain,Lest a throb or a sigh it might own.
For each oft, alas! had it bled,Disappointment had barb'd every dartAnd Peace had with Happiness fled,Ere to sleep I devoted my heart.
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Yet again it awoke from its dreamWith a touch, O how gentle and bland!It the wand of enchantment might seem,But I FELT it was SYMPATHY'S hand.
"Ah! then mine be the triumph, mine own,"Thus softly she sigh'd to my heart,"Can your woes be unpitied, unknown,"When I claim more than half as my part?"
Then bid Reason her vigils to cease,Or to sleep she may quietly go;For though Reason may oft guard your peace,Every JOY you to SYMPATHY owe.
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