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1747–1809

SONNET LXX.

Anna Seward

Yes, thou shalt smile again!— Time always heals In youth, the wounds of Sorrow.— O! survey Yon now subsided Deep, thro’ Night a prey To warring Winds, and to their furious peals

Surging tumultuous!— yet, as in dismay, The settling Billows tremble.— Morning steals Grey on the rocks;— and soon, to pour the day From the streak'd east, the radiant Orb unveils

In all his pride of light.— Thus shall the glow Of beauty, health, and hope, by soft degrees Spread o'er thy breast; disperse these storms of woe; Wake, with sweet pleasure's sense, the wish to please,

Till from those eyes the wonted lustres flow, Bright as the Sun on calm'd and crystal Seas.

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