Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AXD PENCIL PICTURES EROM THE POETS. 19 A Country LOWPER^ CRE unmolested, through whatever sign% The sun proceeds, I wander : neither mist^ Nor freezing sky, nor sultry, checking me,Nor stranger intermeddling with my in the spring and playtime of the year,That calls the unwonted villager abroadi-^ With all her little ones, a sportive train,To gather kingcups in the yellow mead,And prink their hair with daisies, or to pickA cheap but wholesome salad from the brook,These shades are all my own. The timorous hare,Grown so familiar with he

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Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AXD PENCIL PICTURES EROM THE POETS. 19 A Country LOWPER^ CRE unmolested, through whatever sign% The sun proceeds, I wander : neither mist^ Nor freezing sky, nor sultry, checking me,Nor stranger intermeddling with my in the spring and playtime of the year,That calls the unwonted villager abroadi-^ With all her little ones, a sportive train,To gather kingcups in the yellow mead,And prink their hair with daisies, or to pickA cheap but wholesome salad from the brook,These shades are all my own. The timorous hare,Grown so familiar with her frequent guest,Scarce shuns me; and the stockdove, unalarmed,Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspendsHis long love-ditty for my near from his refuge in some lonely elmThat age or injury has hallowed , on his bed of wool and matted leaves,He has outslept the winter, ventures forthTo frisk a while, and bask in the warm sun,The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of sees me, and at once, swift as a the neighbouring beech ; there whisks his brush,And

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