From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 3, March 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen), -1820? [Editor] Carpenter

Of Gracey’s charms enraptur’d will I sing! Fragrant and fair, as blossoms of the spring; To her sweet manners and accomplished mind; Each rival fair the palm of love resign’d. How blest her sweet society to share! To mark the ringlets of her flowing hair; (19) Her gentle accents--her complacent mien!-- Supreme in charms, she looks--she reigns a queen! That alabaster form--that graceful neck How do the cygnets down and whiteness deck?-- How does that aspect shame the cheer of day; When summer suns their brightest beams display. Blest is the youth whom fav’ring fates ordain The treasures of her love, and charms to gain! The fragrant branch with curling tendrils bound, With breathing odours--blooming beauty crown’d. Sweet is the cheer her sprightly wit supplies! Bright is the sparkling azure of her eyes! Soft o’er her neck her lovely tresses flow! Warm in her praise the tongues of rapture glow! Here is the voice--tun’d by harmonious love, Soft as the songs that warble through the grove! Oh! sweeter joys her converse can impart! Sweet to the sense, and grateful to the heart! Gay pleasures dance where’er her footsteps bend, And smiles and rapture round the fair attend: Wit forms her speech, and wisdom fills her mind, And sight and soul in her their object find. Her pearly teeth, in beauteous order plac’d; Her neck with bright, and curling tresses grac’d. But ah, so fair!--in wit and charms supreme, Unequal song must quit its darling theme. Here break I off;--let sparkling goblets flow, And my full heart its cordial wishes show: To her dear health this friendly draught I pour. Long be her life, and blest its every hour. (Footnote 19: Hair is a favourite object with all the Irish poets, and endless is the variety of their description: “Soft misty curls;” “Thick branching tresses of bright redundance;” “Locks of fair waving beauty;” “Tresses flowing on the wind like the bright waving flame of an inverted torch.” They even appear to inspire it with expression: as, “Locks of gentle lustre;” “Tresses of tender beauty;” “The maid with the mildly flowing hair,” &c. &c.)

For Gracey Nugent--By Carolan Monologue from The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 3, March 1810

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