XII.

Cease, cease ye throbs of hopeless woe;

He lives the future hours to bless,

He lives, the purest joy to know,

Parental transports fond excess;

His sight a father's eye shall chear,

A sister's drooping charms endear:--

The private pang was Albion's gen'rous care,

For him she breath'd a warm accepted prayer.

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