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[FROM THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE, ACT I.]
Tell me, on what holy ground / May Domestic Peace be found? / Halcyon daughter of the skies, / Far on fearful wings she flies, / From the pomp of Sceptered State, / From the Rebel's noisy hate. / In a cottaged vale She dwells, / Listening to the Sabbath bells! / Still around her steps are seen / Spotless Honour's meeker mien, / Love, the sire of pleasing fears, / Sorrow smiling through her tears, / And conscious of the past employ / Memory, bosom-spring of joy.