VI. FLOWERS. ERE yet our course was graced with social trees And caught the fragrance which the sundry flowers, There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness; Invited, forth they peeped so fair to view, VII. "CHANGE me, some God, into that breathing rose!" The thousandth part of what the Nymph bestows : Ungraciously receives. Too daring choice! There are whose calmer mind it would content Fearless of plough and scythe; or darkling wren WHAT aspect bore the Man who roved or fled, What hopes came with him? what designs were spread What dreams encompassed? Was the intruder nursed That thinned the living and disturbed the dead ?- Of ignorance thou might'st witness heretofore, Thy function was to heal and to restore, To sooth and cleanse, not madden and pollute! Y IX. THE STEPPING-STONES. THE struggling Rill insensibly is grown Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown, Puts, when the high-swoln Flood runs fierce and wild, And sure encroachments of infirmity, Thinking how fast time runs, life's end how near! X. THE SAME SUBJECT. NOT so that Pair whose youthful spirits dance' |