The Bijou;
or Annual of Literature and the Arts
compiled by William Fraser
London: William Pickering,
1828
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| THE glowing tints beneath thy care | 1 |
| Have traced a form divinely fair, | 2 |
| Have given it charms and beauties rare, | 3 |
| And shown the power of art; | 4 |
| But in the ideal head I trace, | 5 |
| No features of the gypsey's face, | 6 |
| The living smile, the nameless grace, | 7 |
| That nature doth impart. | 8 |
| Here roving looks, and eyes of fire, | 9 |
| Awake the soul of young desire; — | 10 |
| The spells — which Beauty may inspire, | 11 |
| By thee are well exprest. | 12 |
| But soon the varying tints will fade, | 13 |
| And time with leaden hand shall shade, | 14 |
| The colours that once vivid played | 15 |
| In thy bright eye and breast! | 16 |
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| So hope that paints our morning sky, | 17 |
| When viewed with youth's unclouded eye; | 18 |
| So pleasures airy dreams must fly | 19 |
| O'erpowered with care and gloom. | 20 |
| For life's a fearful passing dream, | 21 |
| And those that gay and thoughtless seem, | 22 |
| Alike sail down its swelling stream | 23 |
| To meet the general doom. | 24 |
from The Bijou, 1828, pp. 89-90 |
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