Classic Poem

When fait E UDOSIA joins each pleasing art
To charm the ear, and soften ev'ry heart!
While truth, and sentiment, with feeling grac'd
Adorn th' abode of elegance and taste;
While genius glows, and charity more bright
Beams o'er her cot with soft engaging light;
And gentle music breathes its cadence round
With all the luxury of enchanting sound —
Say — can regret its mournful shadow cast
Or steal one moment from the rich repast?
Alas, its secret sigh wou'd fondly claim
Another still to share the social flame!
Say, wherefore is a flower so fair in hue
Divided from the stock where once it grew?
Transplanted here, tho' bright its colours glow,
'Tis still expos'd to ev'ry deadly foe:
And all the fury of detraction's storm,
Envy and rage may shake its tender form!

Lamenting friendship, anxious and sincere
Wou'd place in safety's shelter one so dear
(By Heaven decreed, when parent man was blest)
Twou'd chuse the harbour of an husband's breast.