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Charlotte Smith - Sonnet LI.
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FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA. 
Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides. 
ON this lone island, whose unfruitful breast
Feeds but the summer-shepherd`s little flock
With scanty herbage from the half-clothed rock,
Where osprays, cormorants, and sea-mews rest;
Even in a scene so desolate and rude
I could with thee for months and years be blest;
And of thy tenderness and love possest,
Find all my world in this wild solitude!
When Summer suns these Northern seas illume,
With thee admire the light`s reflected charms,
And when drear Winter spreads his cheerless gloom,
Still find Elysium in thy shelt`ring arms:
For thou to me canst sovereign bliss impart,
Thy mind my empire--and my throne thy heart.
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