[Poems by Bryant in] A biography of William Cullen Bryant with Extracts from his Private Correspondence |
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AD MUSAM. |
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AD MUSAM.
“So long neglectful of thy dues,And absent from thy shrine so long,
Say, wilt thou deign, Immortal Muse,
Again to inspire thy votary's song?
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I loved at morn the hills to climb,
With dew-drenched feet and bosom bare,
And ponder on the artless rhyme;
And through the long laborious day
(For mine has been the peasant's toil),
I hummed the meditated lay,
While the slow oxen turned the soil.”
Worthington, January, 1812.
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