...CERN' ED LY, without care. ODE OK SOLITUDE, farm. Written when the author was twelve years of age. 1. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees...

...ambitious to increase. There seems to bo an imitation of these lines in the opening of Pope's beautiful ode on Solitude : "Happy the man, whose wish and care...paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground." 4. Foenore. Foenus, from the obsolete feo ; what is made by money, interest ; here...

...his spouse's fonder eye; Or views his smiling progeny: What tender passions take their turns, CHORUS. Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence false...HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal aeries bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields...

...home-felt raptures move ! His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, With reverence, hope, and love . Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises ; Hence false...delays, surprises, Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine ! 40 Purest love's unwasting treasure ; Constant faith, fair hope, long leisure, Days of ease, and...

...than the blank, harmonious waste of the ' Pastorals ' or the other early poems. " Happy the man whoso wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground," says the philosopher of twelve, in a not unusual strain of holiday satisfaction with his home. Some...

...raptures move? His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, 35 With rev'rence, hope, and love. CHORUS; Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence false...yet dare not shine Purest love's unwasting treasure, 41 Constant faith, fair hope, long leisure, Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these...

...ode is more pleasing than the blank, harmonious waste of the Pastorals or the other early poems. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground," says the philosopher of twelve, in a not unusual strain of holiday satisfaction with his home. Some...

...And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. ODE ON QUIET LIFE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire,...

...raptures move ? His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, With reverence, hope, and love. CHORUS. Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false...nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSION BEGONE, ye critics, and restrain your spite, Codrus writes...

...VIII. BRIEG THROUGH THE UPPER RHONE VALLEY BY CHAR TO THE RHONE GLACIER — HOTEL DU GLACIER DU RHONE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air On his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire...