. The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author's own birds . dence in thesoundness of our project, and deriving from it muchimmediate pleasure, which was certain to increase asthe spring came on, if it did not actually realise ourmost sanguine expectations of profit. Where is the troubled lieart consigned to shareTumultuous toils, or solitary care,Uublest by visionary thoughts that strayTo count the joys of fortunes better day ?Oh ! vainly wise, the moral muse hath sung,That suasive hope hath but a syren tongue!True, she may sport with lifes untutord day,
. The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author's own birds . dence in thesoundness of our project, and deriving from it muchimmediate pleasure, which was certain to increase asthe spring came on, if it did not actually realise ourmost sanguine expectations of profit. Where is the troubled lieart consigned to shareTumultuous toils, or solitary care,Uublest by visionary thoughts that strayTo count the joys of fortunes better day ?Oh ! vainly wise, the moral muse hath sung,That suasive hope hath but a syren tongue!True, she may sport with lifes untutord day,Nor heed the solace of its last decay;The guileless heart her happy mansion part, like Ajut, never to return ! And yet methinks, when wisdom shall assuageThe grief and passions of our greener dull the close of life, and far awayEach flower that hailed the dawning of the day;Yet oer her lovely hopes, that once were dear,The time-taught spirit, pensive, not severe,With milder griefs her aged eye shall weep their falsehood, though she loves them still. THE WILD
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