Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11, Pages 56-59
EXTRACTS FROM "DARTMOOR," A PRIZE POEM, BY MRS HEMANS.
[We are permitted to state, that we have been favoured with these "Extracts" by the accomplished lady to whom the Royal Society of Literature have awarded their prize for her poem on "Dartmoor." Fifty copies only were printed, and distributed to the members of the Society; and the following "Extracts" are the sole authorised portions of this beautiful descriptive poem which have yet been given to the public. As we have reason to believe that this successful "Prize Poem" will soon be given to the world, along with other pieces from the same delightful pen, we shall reserve, till their appearance, what we would otherwise have been inclined to say of the incomparable author of "The Sceptic," "Wallace," and "The Wife of Hasdrubal."]
Sepulchral Cairns and Druidical Remains on the Moor.
Yet, what avails it, though each moss-grown heap
Still on the waste its lonely vigils keep,
Guarding the dust which slumbers well beneath,
(Nor needs such care) from each cold season's breath?
Where is the voice to tell their tale who rest,
Thus rudely pillow'd, on the desart’s breast?
Doth the sword sleep beside them?—Hath there been
A sound of battle midst the silent scene.
