A gallery of famous English and American poets . /^^^^ M-.^^^^-^ HEBER THE HUNTING-PAETY. And forth lie fared; while from her turret highThat sraihng form beheld his hunter crew; Pleased she beheld, whose unacquainted eyePound in each varying scene a pleasure new. 211 212 HEBER. Nor yet had pomp fatigued her sated view,Nor custom palled the gloss of royalty. Like some gay child, a simple bliss she drewFrom every gaud of feudal pageantry, every broidered garb that swept in order by. i:.£i^^m&i^-^l^k>. ^^^•? And, sooth, it was a brave and antic sight. Where plume, and crest, and tassel wi
A gallery of famous English and American poets . /^^^^ M-.^^^^-^ HEBER THE HUNTING-PAETY. And forth lie fared; while from her turret highThat sraihng form beheld his hunter crew; Pleased she beheld, whose unacquainted eyePound in each varying scene a pleasure new. 211 212 HEBER. Nor yet had pomp fatigued her sated view,Nor custom palled the gloss of royalty. Like some gay child, a simple bliss she drewFrom every gaud of feudal pageantry, every broidered garb that swept in order by. i:.£i^^m&i^-^l^k>. ^^^•? And, sooth, it was a brave and antic sight. Where plume, and crest, and tassel wildly blending. And bended bow, and javelin flashing bright, Marked the gay squadron through the copse descending; T?IK HUNTING-PARTY. 213 The greyhound, with his silken leash contending,Wreathed the lithe neck; and on the falconers liand. With restless perch and pinions broad hooded goshawk kept her eager stand,And to the coursers tramp loud rang the hollow land. And over all, in accents sadly sweet, The mellow bugle poured its plaintive tone, That echo joyed such numbers to repeat. Who, from dark glade or rock of pumice-stone,Sent to the woodland nymphs a softer moan ; While listeniner far from forth some fallow brown,The swinked ploughman left his work undone; And the glad schoolboy from the neighboring town Sprang oer each prisoning rail, nor recked his mastersfrown. .. Her warm cheek pillowed on her ivory hand,Her long hair waving oer the battlement. In silent thought Ganora k
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