The peripatetic or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society; In a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus; Supposed to be written by himself [by John Thelwall] |
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TO THE LARK. |
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TO THE LARK.
“Hail lofty Pindar of the feather'd choir!
Whether at Heaven's blest gate, on mattin wing,
Soaring thou warblest, when young Maï first
Pours forth the gay luxuriance of her dies,
And hill and valley smile with sudden bloom.—
Whether at Heaven's blest gate, on mattin wing,
Soaring thou warblest, when young Maï first
Pours forth the gay luxuriance of her dies,
And hill and valley smile with sudden bloom.—
“Whether blithe soaring o'er the waving field,
Where bounteous Ceres pours forth all her store,
Veiling glad Nature's form in living gold,
Thy pipe, unfailing, roves through every change,
Lofty or soft, of melody divine.—
Where bounteous Ceres pours forth all her store,
Veiling glad Nature's form in living gold,
Thy pipe, unfailing, roves through every change,
Lofty or soft, of melody divine.—
“Or whether, 'scaping from the fatal tube,
What time the plunder'd stubble dusky mourns,
Still, Attic songster! to the listning soul
Thy strain shall warble gratitude and love!”
What time the plunder'd stubble dusky mourns,
Still, Attic songster! to the listning soul
Thy strain shall warble gratitude and love!”
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