1860. July 1

13

Bickman Bequest.

CHARLES WHITTINGHAM

LONDON

ΤΟ

SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, K.C.M.G.

THIS EDITION OF

FALCONER'S POEMS

IS

WITH EVERY FRIENDLY FEELING

INSCRIBED.

SONNET.

OH! thou storm-beaten Harp! whom erst the wave,
As in despite flung from the greedy sea,

When the ship-foundering tempest hung on thee,
Rock-built Colonna!-Mockery to save;
While the Mosambique, hungry as the grave,
Howl'd o'er the midnight surges for his prey.
So are they gone, each favouring deity,
And not a conch is sounding from the cave,
Of the god-peopled ocean!-Hark, the strain,
That won the gentle dolphin to display
Congenial love, and far from death his prey
Bear o'er the charmèd billow.-Ah! in vain,
Tuneful Arion! is thy dying lay

Along the silver waters heard again.

Benhall, June 1, 1836.

J. MITFORD.