Regardless of his peeping ray.

14.

Of love admiring such a sample,

The Gods and Goddesses descending,

Had never fancied us offending,

But wisely followed our example.

When to their airy hall, my father's voice,

Shall call my spirit, joyful in their choice,

When pois'd upon the gale, my form shall ride,

Or dark in mist, descend the mountain's side;

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Oh! may my shade behold no sculptur'd urns,

To mark the spot, where earth to earth returns.

No lengthen'd scroll of virtue, and renown,

My epitaph, shall be my name alone;

If that with honour fails to crown my clay,

Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay;

That, only that, shall single out the shot,

By that remember'd, or fore'er forgot.—

1803.

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