Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald
ode, sacred to the memory of mrs. oswald of aucruive dweller in yon dungeon dark, hangman of creation! mark, who in eeds appears, laden with unhonour'd years, noosing with care a bursting purse, baited with many a deadly curse? strophe view the wither'd beldam's face; thy keen iion trace aught of humanity's sweet, melting grace? hat eye, 'tis rheum o'erflows; pity's flood there never rose, see these hands retched to save, hands that took, but never gave: keeper of mammon's iro, lo, there she goes, unpitied and u, she goes, but not to realms of everlasti! antistrophe plunderer of armies! lift thine eyes, (a while forbear, ye t fiends;) seest thou whose step, unwilling, hither bends? no fallen angel, hurl'd from upper skies; 'tis thy trusty quondam mate, doom'd to share thy fiery fate; she, tardy, hell-lies. epode and are they of no more avail, ten thousand glittering pounds a-year? in other worlds mammon fail, omnipotent as he is here! o, bitter mockery of the pompous bier, while down the wretched vital part is driven! the cave-lodged beggar,with a sce clear, expires in rags, unknown, and goes to heaven.