Felicia Hemans,
Poems published in The Edinburgh Magazine…
(1822)
“ There throng'd th' inspir'd of yore!—on plain or height, In the sun's face, beneath the eye of light, And, baring unto heaven each noble head, Stood in the circle, where none else might tread. Well might their lays be lofty!—soaring thought, From Nature's presence, tenfold Nature caught! ”
