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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POETICAL PIECES. RETIREMENT, Anno f tat. 16, where, with cryftal dream, the im. petuous rill Hoarfe-murmuring flows adown the fertile vale; Where Sylvan fhades adorn the mofs-crowned hill, And bending poplars court the whifpering gale, How fweet, with mind contemplative, to ftray, (Far from the fcene where mirth intemperate reigns) What time flow twilight fhades the face of day, And awful ftillnefs rules the fhadowy plains; Save where, with warbling note amidft the grove, Sweet Philomela tunes her evening fong; Whilft for her confort's lofs, the woodland dove Complaining coos, the towering elms among. For this the fage forfakes the gilded dome, And hither oft, with devious pace, retires; Here mufing contemplation loves to roam; Here folitude the ferious thought infpires. Tired of the world and pleafure's giddy fphere, Hither, with wandering fteps, oft let me ftray; Whilft true repentance prompts the fwelling tear, And the ftill voice of truth directs my way. A PROSPECT or - QUITTING THE COUNTRY. Anno tftaf. 18. /'H, long remembered, and efteemed as long, Friend of my early youth, my early fong; Say, with what view, by ftill-unerring heaven, Were different tempers, different judgments given, Some tafte peculiar on, each mind imprefled, Some priftine bias lodged in every breaft ? Was it that he, whom rural nature charms, Studious of peace, impatient of alarms, Torn from the fcenes his native tafte approves, - The haunted fountains and the facred groves, v The bowers he planted, and the mufe he loves, H Pent Pent in the town, his joylefs days ihould wear, And ceafelefs languiih for a different fphere? But fo thy friend to intereft's dicbtes yields, And, all reluftant, quits his native fields: Dear are the f...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458897145 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458897141 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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