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Sonnet by Edward, Lord Thurlow, p. 206.] Possessing considerable moral beauty,—from the sec. ed. of his Poems, 1822.

Sonnet by William Stewart Rose, p. 207.] From Thoughts and Recollections by one of the last century, 1825.

Sonnets by John Mitford, p. 208-209.] The first from the Life of Milton, prefixed to his Poetical Works, 3 vols. 1832; the second from a periodical publication.

The following Sonnet, an early production of its author (now given from his Poetical Remains, 1819), was accidentally omitted in the body of the present volume:

JOHN LEYDEN.

ON THE SABBATH MORNING.

WITH silent awe I hail the sacred morn,
That slowly wakes while all the fields are still!

A soothing calm on every breeze is borne;
A graver murmur gurgles from the rill;

And Echo answers softer from the hill;
And softer sings the linnet from the thorn;
The sky-lark warbles in a tone less shrill.
Hail, light serene! hail, sacred Sabbath-morn!

The rooks float silent by in airy drove;
The sun a placid yellow lustre throws ;
The gales, that lately sigh'd along the grove,
Have hush'd their downy wings in dead repose;
The hovering rack of clouds forgets to move;—
So smil'd the day when the first morn arose!

FINIS.

C. WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

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