TRIALS OF VIRTUE.--MERRICK.
For see, ah! see, while yet her ways
With doubtful step I tread,
A hostile world its terrors raise,
Its snares delusive spread.
O how shall I, with heart prepared,
Those terrors learn to meet?
How, from the thousand snares to guard
My unexperienced feet?
TRANSPOSED.
For see thou, ah! see thou a hostile world _to_ raise its terrors, and
see thou a hostile world _to_ spread its delusive snares, while I yet
tread her (_virtue's_) ways with doubtful steps.
O how shall I learn to meet those terrors with a prepared heart? How
shall I learn to guard my unexperienced feet from the thousand snares of
the world?
THE MORNING IN SUMMER.--THOMPSON.
Short is the doubtful empire of the night;
And soon, observant of approaching day,
The meek-eyed morn appears, mother of dews,
At first, faint gleaming in the dappled east,
Till far o'er ether spreads the wid'ning glow,
And from before the lustre of her face
White break the clouds away.
TRANSPOSED.
The doubtful empire of the night is short; and the meek-eyed morn,
(_which is the_) mother of dews, observant of approaching day, soon
appears, gleaming faintly, at first, in the dappled east, till the
widening glow spreads far over ether, and the white clouds break away
from before the lustre of her face.
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