Ah, judge her gently who so deeply loved! Yet tears to human suffering are due; Of Hellespont (such faith was entertained) From out the tomb of him for whom she died; * A constant interchange of growth and blight! * For the account of these long-lived trees, see Pliny's Natural History, Lib. 16. Cap. 44. TO THE DAISY. written in the year 1809. See Nola. « Her divine skill taught me this, That from every thing I saw In some other wiser man." G. WITHERS. In youth from rock to rock I went, From hill to hill, in discontent Of pleasure high and turbulent, Most pleased when most uneasy; But now my own delights I make,— * His Muse. When soothed a while by milder airs, That thinly shades his few grey hairs; Whole summer fields are thine by right; In shoals and bands, a morrice train, Thou greet'st the Traveller in the lane; If welcom❜d once thou count'st it gain; Thou art not daunted, Nor car'st if thou be set at naught: And oft alone in nooks remote We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. Be Violets in their secret mews The flowers the wanton Zephyrs choose; Proud be the Rose, with rains and dews. Her head impearling ; |