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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... A Humming BEE--a little tinkling rill-- A pair of falcons wheeling on the wing, In clamorous agitation, round the crest Of a tall rock, their airy citadel-- By each and all of these the pensive ear Was greeted, in the silence that ensued, When through the cottage-threshold we had passed, And, deep within that lonesome valley, stood Once more beneath the concave of a blue And cloudless sky.--Anon exclaimed our Host, Triumphantly dispersing with the taunt The shade of discontent which on his brow Had gathered,--" Ye have left my cell,--but see How Nature hems you in with friendly arms! And by her help ye are my prisoners still. But which way shall I lead you ?--how contrive, In spot so parsimoniously endowed, " Behold a cabinet for sages built, Which kings might envy!"--Praise to this effect Broke from the happy old Man's reverend lip; Who to the Solitary turned, and said, " In sooth, with love's familiar privilege, You have decried the wealth which is your own. Among these locks and stones, mcthinks, I see More than the heedless impress that belongs To lonely nature's casual work : they bear A semblance strange of power intelligent, And of design not wholly worn away. Boldest of plants that ever faced the wind, How gracefully that slender shrub looks forth From its fantastic birth-place ! And I own, Some shadowy intimations haunt me here, That in these shows a chronicle survives Of purposes akin to those of Man, But wrought with mightier arm than now prevails. --Voiceless the stream descends into the gulf With timid lapse;--and lo! while in this strait I stand--the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to occupy, Or to pass through ; but rather an abyss In which the everlasting...
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