A gallery of famous English and American poets . Saw a green meadow, fair with flowers besprent,Azure and yellow, like the beautiful fieldsOf Entrland, when amid the p-rowing; crrassThe blue-bell bends, the golden king-cup the sweet cowslip scents the genial air,In the merry month of May !Oh, joy ! the travellersGaze on each other with hope-brighteued eyes. For sure throufrh that green meadow flowsThe living stream ! And lo ! their famished beast Sees the restoring sight!Hope gives his feeble limbs a sudden strength;He hurries on !—. LAMB. HESTER. WHE:<r maidens such as Hester di
A gallery of famous English and American poets . Saw a green meadow, fair with flowers besprent,Azure and yellow, like the beautiful fieldsOf Entrland, when amid the p-rowing; crrassThe blue-bell bends, the golden king-cup the sweet cowslip scents the genial air,In the merry month of May !Oh, joy ! the travellersGaze on each other with hope-brighteued eyes. For sure throufrh that green meadow flowsThe living stream ! And lo ! their famished beast Sees the restoring sight!Hope gives his feeble limbs a sudden strength;He hurries on !—. LAMB. HESTER. WHE:<r maidens such as Hester die,Tlieir place ye may not well supply,Though ye among a thousand try,With vain endeavor. 180 HESTER. 181 A month or more hath she been dead;Yet cannot I by Iorce be ledTo think upon tlie wormy bedAnd her together. A springy motion in her gait,A rising step, did indicateOf pride and joy no common rate,Tliat flushed her spirit. I know not by what name besideI shall it call:—if twas not was a joy to that allied,Slie did inherit. Her parents held the Quaker rule,Which doth the human feeling she was trained in natures school,Nature had blest her. A waking eye, a prying mind,A lieart that stirs, is hard to bind,A hawks keen sight ye cannot blind,Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbor, gone beforeTo that unknown and silent we not meet, as heretofore,Some summer morning. When from thy cheerful eyes a rayHath struck a bliss upon the day,A bliss that would not go away,A sweet forewarning? 46 182 LAMB. THE OLD F
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