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Lead where yon fountain sparAVes through the glade,
o'er whtise clear brink the pale narcissus bends,
That loves to trace its beauty in the wave; [leaves,
Where Zephyr, whisp'nng through the trembling
Dtps his tight pinions in the current clear,
And sprinkles freshness o'er the languid flow'rs.
837. -- May. -- Birds' Nests.
Now frtim the wild-flow'r bank the little bird
Picks the soft moss, and to the thicket flies,
And oft returns, and oft the work renews,
'Till all the curious fabric hangs complete;
Alas! but ill conceal'd frpm school-boy's eye,
Who, heed/ess bf the warbler's saddest plaint,
Tears frtim the bush the toil of ma-\-ny an hour. |
838. -- June.
Unhappy he, whti, in this season, pent
Within the darksome gloom of city lane,
Pines for the flow'ry paths and woody shades,
Frtim which the love of lucre or of pow'r
Entic'd his youthful steps. In vain he turns
The rich descriptive page of Thomson's Muse,
And strives to fancy th&t the lovely scenes
Are present. So the hand of childhood tries
To grasp the pictur'd bunch of fruit or flow'rs,
But, disappointed, feels the canvas smooth.
839. -- September.
At sultry hour of noon, the reaper band
Rest from their toil. Around their simple fare,
upon the stubble spread, blithestime they form
A circling groupe, while humbly waits behind
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? 156 Key to English Prosody.
The wistful dog, and, with expressive look
And pawing foot, implores his little share.
The short repast, season d with simple mirth,
And not without the song, gives place to sleep.
With sheaf beneath his head, the rustic youth
Enjoys sweet slumbers, while the maid he loves
Steals to his side, and screens him from the sun.
840. -- October.
Hush'd are the faded woods: no bird is heard,
Save where the red-breast mourns the falling leaf.
At close of shorten'd day, the reaper, tir'd,
With sic/c/e on his shoulder, homeward hies, [low,
Night comes with threat'ning storm,first a>A? sp'ring f
Sighing amid the boughs ; then, by degrees,
With violence redoubled at each pause,
Furious it rages, scaring startled sleep.
841. -- December.
Loud blows the blast. While, s\ielter'dfpom its rage,
The social circle feel their joys enhanc'd,
ah! little think they of the lab'ring ship,
Amid the uproar of the winds and waves--
The waves unseen, save by the lightnings glare,
Or cannon's flash, sad signal Hf distress.
The trembling crew each moment think they feel
The shock of sunken rock. At last they strike.
Borne on the blast, their dying voices reach,
Faintly, the sea-girt hamlet. Help is vain.
842
Can fertile mturt to the eye present
A nobler scene, than when the setting sun
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Gleams oh the fading prospect, and illumes,
With a last stream of light, the spacious view ?
Such h the death of Virtue ; such the glow
8/her last hour, that animates the mind,
WhUn on the te/iSr of a well-spent life
The mental eye reverts, and gazes still,
Till the' dim shades of death o'erwheim the sight,
And lull the sense* m a long repose.
843
england! with all thy faults, I love thee still,
My counfry, and, while yet a nook is left,
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be' constraint to love thee. Though thy clime
Be fickle', and thy year, most pari, deform'd
With dripping rains, or v/ithcr'd by a frost,
I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies
And fields without a flow'r, for warmer France
With all her vines, nor for Ausonia's groves
Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bow'rs.
844. -- Spring.
How swells the raptur'd bosom, while the eye
Wanders, xmsatSd with delight, from shade
To shade, from grove to. thicke\/rowj near gioups
To yon primaeval' woods, with dark'ning sweep
Retiring,. Snd with beauty sees the whole
Kindfe, and glow with renovated life!
For, now, at Spring's re. animating call,
Each native tif the forVst, frUm the trunk
Tow'ring and huge, down (6 the tangled bush,
Its own peculiar character resumes.
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845
Sec, from bis cave beneath yon bramb\y bank,
The fox glide forth, scenting the feather'd prey
Perch'd at the neighb'ring cottage. --Creeping slow,
The weasel, and in si/enc* through the fern
Steals on the dozing lev'ref. Frtim her seat
She starts, and bears away th' assailant, fix'd
Fast to her neck, and, from the flowing: vein,
Sucking the vital current. Lo ! she falls :--
The puny murd'rer slinks into the brake
From the drain d carcase, sated With the blood.
846
Thus, when her standard civilising art
Plants on some barb'rous shore, to mountains bleak,
And craggy fastnesses his warrior sons
The angry Genius tif the waste withdraws;
There bids them,from the influence abhorr'd
Of science free, their sangj/<<wory rites,
Their manners rude, and savage laws uphold ;
Till fate shall once more pour thlm from their caves,
Impatient e'er their long-lost plains again
To spread the veil of ignorance and night. ,
847. -- Botany Bay. . ?
Why, stem Remembrance, must thy iron hand
Harrow my soul. ' why calls thy cruel pow'r
The fields of 'England to my exil'd eyes--
The joys which once were mine ? e'en now I see
The lowly, lovely dwelling: even now
Behold the woodbine clasping tls white walls, *
And hear the fearless Red-breasts chirp around,
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To ask their morning meal: for i was wont,
With friendly hand, to give their morning meal,
Was wont to love their song, when ling'ring mom
Streak'd tfer the chilly landscape the dim light.
848 *'
Behold yon pool, by un-exhausted springs
Still wiirtur'd, draw the multitudes that graze
The plain adjarf/ff. --on the bank worn bare,
And printed with ten f/iiwsand steps, the colts
In shifting groups combine; tir, to the brink
Descending, dip their pasteV/is in the wave.
Bolder, the horned tribes, or less of heat
And teasing insects patient, far from shore
Immerge their chests; and, while the hungry swarm
Now soars aloft, now resolute descends,
Lash their tormented sides; and, stamping quick
And oft, the muddy fluid scatter round.
849
The glow of eve is faded. Scarce the West
Retains a pale rnenio-|-rja7 of | the beams
That fir'd it, when the horizontal clouds,
With purple dies and fissures edged with gold,
Streak'd till calm ather; while, through sparkling haze,
The faint hills gltmmev'd, fainter, as their chain
Approach'd the fount of brightness, fainter still
As sunk the parting orb, and with the sky
In uhdistingM/sAable splendor join'd
Milder, still milder, the subsiding glow
Spar'd the pain'd eye-ball, and, with sober rays
Quench'd in the gath'ring dusk, refresh'd the sight.
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? 160 Key to English Prosody.
850. -- The Finding of Moses.
Slow glides the Nile: amid the margin flags,
Clos'd in a bulrush ark, the babe is kft,
Left by a mother's hand. His sister waits
Far off; and, pale, 'tween hope and fear, beholds .
The royal maid, surrounds? by her train,
Approach the river bank, approach the spot
Where sleeps the iunocHnt. She sees them stoop
To view the ark. The rushy lid is op'd,
And wakes the infant, smiling in his tears ;
As when, along a little mountain lake^
The summer south-wind breathes with gentle sigh,
And parts the reeds, unveilifwg, as they bend,
A water lily floating on the wave.
851
What prodigie"s can pow'r divine perform
More grand than it produces year by year,
And all in sight of inattentive man ?
Fami/tar with th' effect, we slight the cause,
and, in the constancy of nature's course,
The regular return of genial months,
And renovariow of a faded world,
See nought to wonder at. Should God agaiu,
As once in Q\-\-be$n, ? >>-|-terrupt the race
VfthV unde-|-i>j4fi<<g | and punc-|-rwa/ sm, \
How would the world admire ! But speaks it less
An nggncy divine, to make him know
His moment when to sink and when to rise.
age a/ter age, than to arrest his course :
all a? behold is mirfcli: but, seen
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So duly, all is miracle in vain.
i 852. -- Cruel Punishment of a Negro Slave.
Inhuman sons of Europe ! not content
With dooms of death, your victim high you hung
Encag'd, to scorch beneath the torrid ray,
And feed, alive, the hungry fowls of heav'n.
Around the bars already, see, they cling !
The vulture's head . looks through: she strives in vain
To force her way. The lesser birds await
'Till worn-out nature sinks : then on they pounce,
And tear the quiv'ring flesh. In agony
The victim wakes, and rolls his wretched eye? ,
And feebly drives the rav'ning flocks away.
Most dread/'w//y he groans: 'tis thirst, third, thirst,
Direst of human torments ! Down a^ain
He sinks : again he feels the tort'ring beak.
853. -- Ovid's Departure into Exile*.
In mem'ry's faithful mhitir while I scan
Tn' afflictive scenes of that disastrous night --
That night of deepest woe, when, torn by fate
From all my heart held dear, to joyous Rome
Son? owlng | 1 bade adieu -- the briny drop
E'en now rolls down my cheek. --The morn approat h'd
Of that tremendous day, by Caesar's will
Foredoom'd the pe-\-riod, whin, \ within thy bounds,
ah! wiucA-lov'd lratj/1 my ling'ring steps
No more might dare to tread : -- nor adequate
Had been th allotted time, nor had my mind
* From his " Tristin," bouV 1. el. 3.
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(Howe'er submissive f6 the stern decree)
Due energy exerted, to prepare
For the impending hour: -- the fond delay.
Too I5ng indulg'd, had frozen up my soul,
And numb'd the thinking faculty within | me.
Heedless, 1 chose not, from the me-l-nial throng J
"What faithful slave in Scythian wilds should ease
My va-l-nous wants, | what sympathising friend
Escort me on my way; nor store of dress
Meet for this rude unge'l-nial clime, | nor aught
To life's enjoyment requisite, engag'd
My providential care. Of sense bereft
f stood, as who, by lightning stunn'd, retains
The vital spark, unconscious that he lives.
At length excess of grief the cloud dispell'd,
That erst my reason had eclips'd; and, thought
Resuming its lost empire, 1 address,
In last, sad, parting speech, the mourning few
Who now remain, of, late, so numVous friends.
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? Key to English Prosody. 155
Lead where yon fountain sparAVes through the glade,
o'er whtise clear brink the pale narcissus bends,
That loves to trace its beauty in the wave; [leaves,
Where Zephyr, whisp'nng through the trembling
Dtps his tight pinions in the current clear,
And sprinkles freshness o'er the languid flow'rs.
837. -- May. -- Birds' Nests.
Now frtim the wild-flow'r bank the little bird
Picks the soft moss, and to the thicket flies,
And oft returns, and oft the work renews,
'Till all the curious fabric hangs complete;
Alas! but ill conceal'd frpm school-boy's eye,
Who, heed/ess bf the warbler's saddest plaint,
Tears frtim the bush the toil of ma-\-ny an hour. |
838. -- June.
Unhappy he, whti, in this season, pent
Within the darksome gloom of city lane,
Pines for the flow'ry paths and woody shades,
Frtim which the love of lucre or of pow'r
Entic'd his youthful steps. In vain he turns
The rich descriptive page of Thomson's Muse,
And strives to fancy th&t the lovely scenes
Are present. So the hand of childhood tries
To grasp the pictur'd bunch of fruit or flow'rs,
But, disappointed, feels the canvas smooth.
839. -- September.
At sultry hour of noon, the reaper band
Rest from their toil. Around their simple fare,
upon the stubble spread, blithestime they form
A circling groupe, while humbly waits behind
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The wistful dog, and, with expressive look
And pawing foot, implores his little share.
The short repast, season d with simple mirth,
And not without the song, gives place to sleep.
With sheaf beneath his head, the rustic youth
Enjoys sweet slumbers, while the maid he loves
Steals to his side, and screens him from the sun.
840. -- October.
Hush'd are the faded woods: no bird is heard,
Save where the red-breast mourns the falling leaf.
At close of shorten'd day, the reaper, tir'd,
With sic/c/e on his shoulder, homeward hies, [low,
Night comes with threat'ning storm,first a>A? sp'ring f
Sighing amid the boughs ; then, by degrees,
With violence redoubled at each pause,
Furious it rages, scaring startled sleep.
841. -- December.
Loud blows the blast. While, s\ielter'dfpom its rage,
The social circle feel their joys enhanc'd,
ah! little think they of the lab'ring ship,
Amid the uproar of the winds and waves--
The waves unseen, save by the lightnings glare,
Or cannon's flash, sad signal Hf distress.
The trembling crew each moment think they feel
The shock of sunken rock. At last they strike.
Borne on the blast, their dying voices reach,
Faintly, the sea-girt hamlet. Help is vain.
842
Can fertile mturt to the eye present
A nobler scene, than when the setting sun
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? Key to English Prosody. 157
Gleams oh the fading prospect, and illumes,
With a last stream of light, the spacious view ?
Such h the death of Virtue ; such the glow
8/her last hour, that animates the mind,
WhUn on the te/iSr of a well-spent life
The mental eye reverts, and gazes still,
Till the' dim shades of death o'erwheim the sight,
And lull the sense* m a long repose.
843
england! with all thy faults, I love thee still,
My counfry, and, while yet a nook is left,
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be' constraint to love thee. Though thy clime
Be fickle', and thy year, most pari, deform'd
With dripping rains, or v/ithcr'd by a frost,
I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies
And fields without a flow'r, for warmer France
With all her vines, nor for Ausonia's groves
Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bow'rs.
844. -- Spring.
How swells the raptur'd bosom, while the eye
Wanders, xmsatSd with delight, from shade
To shade, from grove to. thicke\/rowj near gioups
To yon primaeval' woods, with dark'ning sweep
Retiring,. Snd with beauty sees the whole
Kindfe, and glow with renovated life!
For, now, at Spring's re. animating call,
Each native tif the forVst, frUm the trunk
Tow'ring and huge, down (6 the tangled bush,
Its own peculiar character resumes.
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? 158 Key to English Prosody.
845
Sec, from bis cave beneath yon bramb\y bank,
The fox glide forth, scenting the feather'd prey
Perch'd at the neighb'ring cottage. --Creeping slow,
The weasel, and in si/enc* through the fern
Steals on the dozing lev'ref. Frtim her seat
She starts, and bears away th' assailant, fix'd
Fast to her neck, and, from the flowing: vein,
Sucking the vital current. Lo ! she falls :--
The puny murd'rer slinks into the brake
From the drain d carcase, sated With the blood.
846
Thus, when her standard civilising art
Plants on some barb'rous shore, to mountains bleak,
And craggy fastnesses his warrior sons
The angry Genius tif the waste withdraws;
There bids them,from the influence abhorr'd
Of science free, their sangj/<<wory rites,
Their manners rude, and savage laws uphold ;
Till fate shall once more pour thlm from their caves,
Impatient e'er their long-lost plains again
To spread the veil of ignorance and night. ,
847. -- Botany Bay. . ?
Why, stem Remembrance, must thy iron hand
Harrow my soul. ' why calls thy cruel pow'r
The fields of 'England to my exil'd eyes--
The joys which once were mine ? e'en now I see
The lowly, lovely dwelling: even now
Behold the woodbine clasping tls white walls, *
And hear the fearless Red-breasts chirp around,
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To ask their morning meal: for i was wont,
With friendly hand, to give their morning meal,
Was wont to love their song, when ling'ring mom
Streak'd tfer the chilly landscape the dim light.
848 *'
Behold yon pool, by un-exhausted springs
Still wiirtur'd, draw the multitudes that graze
The plain adjarf/ff. --on the bank worn bare,
And printed with ten f/iiwsand steps, the colts
In shifting groups combine; tir, to the brink
Descending, dip their pasteV/is in the wave.
Bolder, the horned tribes, or less of heat
And teasing insects patient, far from shore
Immerge their chests; and, while the hungry swarm
Now soars aloft, now resolute descends,
Lash their tormented sides; and, stamping quick
And oft, the muddy fluid scatter round.
849
The glow of eve is faded. Scarce the West
Retains a pale rnenio-|-rja7 of | the beams
That fir'd it, when the horizontal clouds,
With purple dies and fissures edged with gold,
Streak'd till calm ather; while, through sparkling haze,
The faint hills gltmmev'd, fainter, as their chain
Approach'd the fount of brightness, fainter still
As sunk the parting orb, and with the sky
In uhdistingM/sAable splendor join'd
Milder, still milder, the subsiding glow
Spar'd the pain'd eye-ball, and, with sober rays
Quench'd in the gath'ring dusk, refresh'd the sight.
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? 160 Key to English Prosody.
850. -- The Finding of Moses.
Slow glides the Nile: amid the margin flags,
Clos'd in a bulrush ark, the babe is kft,
Left by a mother's hand. His sister waits
Far off; and, pale, 'tween hope and fear, beholds .
The royal maid, surrounds? by her train,
Approach the river bank, approach the spot
Where sleeps the iunocHnt. She sees them stoop
To view the ark. The rushy lid is op'd,
And wakes the infant, smiling in his tears ;
As when, along a little mountain lake^
The summer south-wind breathes with gentle sigh,
And parts the reeds, unveilifwg, as they bend,
A water lily floating on the wave.
851
What prodigie"s can pow'r divine perform
More grand than it produces year by year,
And all in sight of inattentive man ?
Fami/tar with th' effect, we slight the cause,
and, in the constancy of nature's course,
The regular return of genial months,
And renovariow of a faded world,
See nought to wonder at. Should God agaiu,
As once in Q\-\-be$n, ? >>-|-terrupt the race
VfthV unde-|-i>j4fi<<g | and punc-|-rwa/ sm, \
How would the world admire ! But speaks it less
An nggncy divine, to make him know
His moment when to sink and when to rise.
age a/ter age, than to arrest his course :
all a? behold is mirfcli: but, seen
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So duly, all is miracle in vain.
i 852. -- Cruel Punishment of a Negro Slave.
Inhuman sons of Europe ! not content
With dooms of death, your victim high you hung
Encag'd, to scorch beneath the torrid ray,
And feed, alive, the hungry fowls of heav'n.
Around the bars already, see, they cling !
The vulture's head . looks through: she strives in vain
To force her way. The lesser birds await
'Till worn-out nature sinks : then on they pounce,
And tear the quiv'ring flesh. In agony
The victim wakes, and rolls his wretched eye? ,
And feebly drives the rav'ning flocks away.
Most dread/'w//y he groans: 'tis thirst, third, thirst,
Direst of human torments ! Down a^ain
He sinks : again he feels the tort'ring beak.
853. -- Ovid's Departure into Exile*.
In mem'ry's faithful mhitir while I scan
Tn' afflictive scenes of that disastrous night --
That night of deepest woe, when, torn by fate
From all my heart held dear, to joyous Rome
Son? owlng | 1 bade adieu -- the briny drop
E'en now rolls down my cheek. --The morn approat h'd
Of that tremendous day, by Caesar's will
Foredoom'd the pe-\-riod, whin, \ within thy bounds,
ah! wiucA-lov'd lratj/1 my ling'ring steps
No more might dare to tread : -- nor adequate
Had been th allotted time, nor had my mind
* From his " Tristin," bouV 1. el. 3.
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(Howe'er submissive f6 the stern decree)
Due energy exerted, to prepare
For the impending hour: -- the fond delay.
Too I5ng indulg'd, had frozen up my soul,
And numb'd the thinking faculty within | me.
Heedless, 1 chose not, from the me-l-nial throng J
"What faithful slave in Scythian wilds should ease
My va-l-nous wants, | what sympathising friend
Escort me on my way; nor store of dress
Meet for this rude unge'l-nial clime, | nor aught
To life's enjoyment requisite, engag'd
My providential care. Of sense bereft
f stood, as who, by lightning stunn'd, retains
The vital spark, unconscious that he lives.
At length excess of grief the cloud dispell'd,
That erst my reason had eclips'd; and, thought
Resuming its lost empire, 1 address,
In last, sad, parting speech, the mourning few
Who now remain, of, late, so numVous friends.
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