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First Line: Throned in the sun's descending car
Last Line: Favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.]
Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Beattie, James (1735-1803); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Doctors


Throned in the Sun's descending car
What Power unseen diffuses far
This tenderness of mind?
What genius smiles on yonder flood?
What God in whispers from the wood
Bids every thought be kind?
O ever pleasing Solitude,
Companion of the wise and good,
Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine,
Thy charms my only theme;
My haunt the hollow cliff whose Pine
Waves o'er the gloomy stream;
Whence the sacred Owl on pinions grey
Breaks from the rustling boughs,
And down the lone vail sails away
To more profound repose!
[Poet's Note: Not a word of this poem is original; it is simply a
fine stanza from of Akenside, connected with a still finer from
Beattie, by a couplet from Thomson. This practice, in which the
author sometimes indulges, of linking together in his own mind,
favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.]




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