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Charlotte Smith - Sonnet XXX. To The River Arun
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BE the proud Thames of trade the busy mart!
Arun! to thee will other praise belong;
Dear to the lover`s and the mourner`s heart,
And ever sacred to the sons of song!
Thy banks romantic hopeless Love shall seek,
Where o`er the rocks the mantling bindwith flaunts;
And Sorrow`s drooping form and faded cheek
Choose on thy willow`d shore her lonely haunts.
Banks, which inspired thy Otway`s plaintive strain!
Wilds,--whose lorn echoes learned the deeper tone
Of Collins` powerful shell! yet once again
Another poet--Hayley is thine own!
Thy classic stream anew shall hear a lay,
Bright as its waves, and various as its way.
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