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SONNET TO THE DEBEN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou windest not through scenery which enchants
Last Line: By the bright promise of a cloudless morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Deben (river), England


THOU windest not through scenery which enchants
The gazer's eye with much of grand or fair;
Yet on thy margin many a wandering pair
Have found that peaceful pleasure nature grants
To those who seek her in her humbler haunts,
And love and prize them, because she is there:
May I then, now the setting sunbeam slants
Upon thy bosom, in those pleasures share?
Thanks unto Nature, she hath left me yet
Some of those better feelings which were born
In childhood: may their influence never set;
But may it be as gradually withdrawn,
As yon sun's beams from thee; chiding regret
By the bright promise of a cloudless morn.





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