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A POET'S STUDY;

BY

BERNARD BARTON.

OH! not in ceiled rooms of state,Cumber'd with books the while,Would I the Muse's influence wait,Or there expect her smile.
A nook in some lone churchyard green,Fann'd by the summer breeze—The living and the dead between,Would more my fancy please.
Nor unto Fancy's power aloneShould such a scene appeal;Its sober and its chasten'd toneMy inmost heart would feel.
The moss'd trunk of a scathed treeShould be my only seat;And more than moral tomes to meThat relique should repeat.
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