Ode, inscribed to John Howard, author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" ... / By William Hayley.

  • Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Date:
1780
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ode, inscribed to John Howard, author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" ... / By William Hayley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sweet the delight, when the gall’d heart Feels Confolatlon’s lenient hand Bind up the wound from Fortune’s dart With Frlendlhlp’s life-fupporting band ! And fweeter ftill, and far above Thefe fainter joys, when pureft Love The foul his willing captive keeps ! When he In blifs the melting fpirit fteeps. Who drops delicious tears, and wonders that he weeps! But not the brighteft joy, which Arts, In floods of mental light, beftow; Nor what firm Friendlhip’s zeal Imparts, Bleft antidote of bittereft.woe ! Nor thofe that Love’s fweet hours difpenfe, Can equal the ecftatic lenle. When, fwelling to a fond excefs. The grateful prailes ot reliev d diftrels. Re-echoed thro’ the heart, the foul of Bounty blefs. Thefe