Louisa : a poetical novel, in four epistles / by Miss Seward.

  • Seward, Anna, 1742-1809
Date:
1784
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Credit: Louisa : a poetical novel, in four epistles / by Miss Seward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 23 ] Detefced impotence pf flatter’d charms, That cou’d not bind my Wand’rer to my arms! Ah! what avail’d your beauties, but to lure That fleeting Love, ye knew not to fecure! Like opening flow’rs, that deck the defart Glade, Fair to no purpofe, flatter’d Graces fade!—— One healing draught—and all fhall yet be well! “ Peace is the pale-ey’d Sifter of the Cell,” The cell of DEATH—where Mif’ry only knows The foft exemption,—and the long tepole. Ah no !—a guardian Spirit feems to fay, “ Stay thee, Louisa, yet a little ftay ! Awake not righteous Heav’n’s avenging Hate By raflily plunging in the waves of Fate ! Tho’ Time, for woes like thine, admits no cure, Yet learn its hardeft leflbn, to endure ! Not long fhall Life her torturing fenfe impart Of the barb’d fhaft, that rankles in thy heart. Thou {halt not need to ftain thy fpotlefs Soul, Nor want th’ enfanguin’d knife, th’ envenom’d bowl; Thy