Smith, Horace, "Inscription for a Grotto." in The Bijou; (London: William Pickering , 1828)
   
      
         
            
               The Bijou; 
               or Annual of Literature and the Arts
            
            compiled by William Fraser
            
            
               
                  William Pickering
               
               London
            
            1828
            
               
                  p. 194
               
            
         
      
      
         
            
               Inscription for a Grotto
            
            
               By Horace Smith, Esq.
            
            
               HITHER to my Grotto fly,
               To its cold and mossy seats,
               Ye who dread the summer sky,
               And the sun's meridian heats.
            
            
            
               Here's a fount that moistly breathes
               Freshness through the vaulted gloom,
               Eglantine whose hidden wreaths
               The dim cooling air perfume.
            
            
            
               Harboured from the care and noise
               Which have still your steps pursued,
               Here you taste the purer joys
               Of sweet soothing solitude.
            
            
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               Here may maid with love untold,
               In echo's ear her tale effuse,
               Here may raptured poet hold
               Communion with the willing muse.
               Hither — hither — hither fly,
               To silence to serenity! —