Elegy to the Memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales.

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Davis British Women Romantic Poets Series83Nancy Kushigian,General EditorCharlotte Payne,Managing EditorElegy to the memory of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of WalesCockle, MaryPrinted by S. Hodgson, Union‐StreetNewcastle upon Tyne, 1817[This text was scanned from its original in the Shields Library Kohler Collection, University of California, Davis. Kohler ID no. I:235. Another copy available on microfilm as Kohler I:235mf.]

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[Title Page] ElegyTO THEMemory of Her Royal HighnessTHEPRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES.BY MRS. COCKLE.Newcastle upon Tyne:PRINTED BY S. HODGSON, UNION‐STREET.MDCCCXVII.Only twenty copies printed.Elegy.———"What tho' short thy date,"Virtue, not rolling Suns, the mind matures."That Life is long, which answers Life's great End."YOUNG.A KINGDOM mourns—a NATION'S sorrows flow;And public anguish joins the private woe!A star is set!—that star, whose cheering lightPierc'd the deep gloom of Britain's wintry night,And, in the radiance of its early ray,Gave the rich promise of a cloudless day;Yet set to rise—within a purer sky,With the bright beams of Immortality!Lost Hope—lost blessing of a Princely race,Where fair perfection shew'd each ripen'd grace!Not Her's alone that high ennobling worth,That lends new lustre to the claims of Birth,Those proud adornments, that exalting wait, Around "the pomp and circumstance" of state,The humbler virtues, in her spotless breast,Found the dear shelter of domestic rest,'Midst all the tenderest sympathies of life,The sacred ties of Daughter, Friend, and Wife;Those envied ties, that in possession prove,The heart's best refuge is the Home of Love.Where'er she mov'd, the fervent pray'r aroseOf grateful sorrow's mitigated woes—Her open hand the liberal boon supplied,And gave to Pity, all to Pomp denied;Whilst Charity diffus'd, with angel gleam,With cheering influence, its celestial beam.When Heaven, indulgent to a nation's pray'r,Gave in fond hope an added blessing there,And her own Britain, 'midst each offer'd vow,Hail'd the new lustre circling o'er her brow,Joy rais'd her radiant eye, and smiling woveA fairer garland with the flowers of love:Nor mark'd, whilst bending o'er the glowing wreath,The blighting mildew, and the worm of Death.Lamented Princess! thus in beauty's morn,From thy gay dream of nuptial pleasures torn;In the keen anguish of that struggling hour,When suffering taught thee its subduing pow'r,And nature, trembling at the unequal strife,Recall'd the tie that gave thee back to life;'Midst each NEW feeling rushing to thy soul,What stronger impulse in its full controulSooth'd the keen anguish of maternal woe,Amidst those feelings only mothers know?Bade thy young bosom, whilst it beating stroveWith the first transports of Parental Love,With tried, and holy confidence resignThe Child of Heaven? alas no longer thine!'Twas meek Religion, stealing thro' the gloom,And pious Hope—reposing on the Tomb,And Christian Fortitude with eagle eye,That looks from Earth to Immortality,And Christian Faith, that soars with eagle wingsFrom Life's poor pageants to the KING OF KINGS,And, in that hallow'd title, saw thee ownThe passing splendour of an earthly Crown,Exchange the lustre of its transient raysFor the bright circlet of Eternal days.And thou, sad mourner, destin'd yet to bearThy Cross of suffering whilst a pilgrim here,By her instructed, raise thy drooping eyeTo the bright angel in her native sky;See her with angel powers, with angel form,Thy guardian seraph thro' life's certain storm,Till the pure spirits, re‐united prove,The unchanging blessings of Immortal Love.That power supreme, whose universal gazeThe Peasant's as the Prince's lot surveys,Who veils his mercies from our feeble eyes,And clothes them oft in sorrow's dark disguise,Took her all spotless, from an Earthly Throne,To happier kingdoms and a brighter Crown—That Crown, which offer'd by Redeeming Love,The bright reward of heavenly trust shall prove,A Crown, that purchas'd with a Saviour's blood, Awaits the young, the guiltless, and the good.FINIS.