The Table book; . thine happiness,—That thou, light-winged Dryad of the some melodious plotOf beechen green, and shadows numberless,Singest of summer in full-throated , for a draught of vintage 1 that hath been Coold a long age in the deep-delved of Flora and the country green. Dance, and Provengal song, and sunburnt mirth O for a beaker full of the warm of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,And purple-stained mouth;That I migfit drink, and leave the world with thee fade away into the forest dim :Fade far
The Table book; . thine happiness,—That thou, light-winged Dryad of the some melodious plotOf beechen green, and shadows numberless,Singest of summer in full-throated , for a draught of vintage 1 that hath been Coold a long age in the deep-delved of Flora and the country green. Dance, and Provengal song, and sunburnt mirth O for a beaker full of the warm of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,And purple-stained mouth;That I migfit drink, and leave the world with thee fade away into the forest dim :Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray youth grows spectre-thin, and diO«Where but lo think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed beauty cannot keep her lustrous new love pine at them beyond to-monow 405. \ WEST WICKHAM CHUECH, KENT. From Beckenham church we walked about two miles along a nearly straightroad, fenced off from the adjoining lands,till we reached West Wickham. It wasfrom a painted window in this church thatI made the tracing of St. Catherine engravedin the Every-Day Book, where some men-tion is made of the retired situation of thisvillage. * Wickham Court, the ancient manor-house adjacent to the church, was formerlythe residence of Gilbeit West, the transla-tor of Pindar, and author of the Obser-vations on the Resurrection of Christ. forwhich the university of Oxford conferredon him the degree of doctor of laws. Hewas very often visited by Lyttelton andPitt, who, when they were weary of factionand debates, used, at Wickham, to findbooks and quiet, a decent table, and lite-rary conversation.* It was in West!3 • Dr. J^lmscii. society, at Wickham, that lord Lytteltonwas convmced of the truth of that conviction he wrote his cele-brated Di
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