. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. [ 17 ] ROMANCE. W HAT wildly-beauteous form,High on the summit of yon bicrownd hill,Lovely in horror, takes her dauntless stand ? Tho speds the thunder there its deepning way,Tho round her head the lightnings play.Undaunted she abides the storm;She waves her magic wand,The clouds retire, the storm is still;Bright beams the sun unwonted light around.And many a rising flower bedecks the enchanted ground. Romance ! I know thee now, I know the terrors of thy brow;I know thine aweful mien, thy beaming eye ; And lo! whilst mists arise a Stock Photo

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. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. [ 17 ] ROMANCE. W HAT wildly-beauteous form,High on the summit of yon bicrownd hill,Lovely in horror, takes her dauntless stand ? Tho speds the thunder there its deepning way,Tho round her head the lightnings play.Undaunted she abides the storm;She waves her magic wand,The clouds retire, the storm is still;Bright beams the sun unwonted light around.And many a rising flower bedecks the enchanted ground. Romance ! I know thee now, I know the terrors of thy brow;I know thine aweful mien, thy beaming eye ; And lo! whilst mists arise a

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. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. [ 17 ] ROMANCE. W HAT wildly-beauteous form, High on the summit of yon bicrownd hill, Lovely in horror, takes her dauntless stand ? Tho speds the thunder there its deepning way, Tho round her head the lightnings play.Undaunted she abides the storm;She waves her magic wand, The clouds retire, the storm is still;Bright beams the sun unwonted light around.And many a rising flower bedecks the enchanted ground. Romance ! I know thee now, I know the terrors of thy brow;I know thine aweful mien, thy beaming eye ; And lo! whilst mists arise around Yon car that cleaves the pregnant ground!Two fiery dragons whirl her through the sky; Her milder sister loves to rove Amid Parnassus laurelld grove, c [ i8 ] On Helicons harmonious side, To mark the gurgling streamlet glide;Meantime, thro wilder scenes and sterner skies, From clime to clime the ardent genius flies. She speeds to yonder shore, *Where ruthless tempests roar, Where sturdy winter holds his northern reign, Nor vernal suns relax the ice-pild plain:

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