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Then, bless'd Philanthropy! thy social hands Had link'd dissever'd worlds in brothers' bands; Careless, if colour, or if clime divide; Then lov'd and loving, man had liv'd, and died." Soon after the account arrived in England of Captain Cook's decease, two poems were published in celebration of his memory; one of which was an Ode, by a Mr. Fitzgerald, of Gray's Inn.
Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain: Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!
Who will bring back the world's unblemish'd youth When these two wander'd ever hand in hand; When Truth was Beauty, Beauty too was Truth, So link'd together with unbroken band, That they were one; and Man, at their command, Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy, And trod the path of Duty and of Joy?
"Yet thine own fate," replied Halbert, "unless men greatly err, is linked with that of mortals?" The phantom answered, "By ties mysterious link'd, our fated race Holds strange connexion with the sons of men.
For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him or mistake Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall sea her gain'd By a far worse; or it she love, withheld By parents; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate and shame; Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
How many ages and generations have brooded and wept and agonized over this book! What untellable joys and ecstasies what support to martyrs at the stake from it. Translated in all languages, how it has united this diverse world! Of civilized lands to-day, whose of our retrospects has it not interwoven and link'd and permeated?
Shere Singh, liberated from the imminent oppression of the soldiery, plunged headlong into a slough of detestable debauchery. But in our annals his memory must survive, "Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes."
The fete which Lambro discovers on his return, is, however, prettily described; and the dance is as perfect as true. And farther on a group of Grecian girls, The first and tallest her white kerchief waving, Were strung together like a row of pearls, Link'd hand in hand and dancing; each too having Down her white neck long floating auburn curls.
"A soul, that climbing hour by hour the silver-shining stair That leads to God's great treasure-house, grew covetous; and there "She link'd that none in earth or heaven might hinder it or stay One Other Name, so strong, that thine hath never missed its way. "This very night within my arms this gracious soul I bore Within the Gate, where many a prayer of hers had gone before;
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, But you, ye untold latencies will thrill to every page." Not linked with the studied and scholarly productions, not open to the mere bookish mind, but more akin to the primitive utterances and oracles of historic humanity.
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