Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . l cottage door;Unchanged as truth, the river welcomed homeIhe wanderer of the seas heart-breaking foam ;But the changed cottage, like a time-tried friend,Smote on my heart-strings, at my journeys now no lilies bloom the door beside !The very house-leek on the roof hath died IIhe windowed gables ivy bower is gone,The rose departed from the porch of stone :The pink, the violet, have fled away,The polyanthus and auricula ! And round my home, once bright with flowers, I foundNot one square yard, one foot of garden of the quiet fields ! t
Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . l cottage door;Unchanged as truth, the river welcomed homeIhe wanderer of the seas heart-breaking foam ;But the changed cottage, like a time-tried friend,Smote on my heart-strings, at my journeys now no lilies bloom the door beside !The very house-leek on the roof hath died IIhe windowed gables ivy bower is gone,The rose departed from the porch of stone :The pink, the violet, have fled away,The polyanthus and auricula ! And round my home, once bright with flowers, I foundNot one square yard, one foot of garden of the quiet fields ! that oft of yoreCalled me at morn on Shenstones page to pore;Oh ! poor mans pathway ! where, at evenings close,He stopped to pluck the woodbine and the rose,Shaking the dew-drop from the wild-brier bowers,That stooped beneath their load of summer flowers,Then eyed the west, still bright with fading flame,As whistling homeward by the wood he came;Sweet, dewy, sunny, flowery footpath, thouArt gone for ever, like the poor mans cow ! . . .. PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. 35 All Ancient Prude. F
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