Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . w catching a fish, nowfishing for a metaphor. A simple tradesman, and yet a friend ofgrave divines and witty courtiers, Walton sounded both the bassand the upper strings of fortune, and must have spent ninety ascalm-flowing and happy years as any son of Adam that ever drewbreath. To use his own words, when the lawyer was swallowed upwith business, and the statesman contriving plots, he sat oncowslip-banks hearing the birds sing, and possessed himself in asmuc
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . w catching a fish, nowfishing for a metaphor. A simple tradesman, and yet a friend ofgrave divines and witty courtiers, Walton sounded both the bassand the upper strings of fortune, and must have spent ninety ascalm-flowing and happy years as any son of Adam that ever drewbreath. To use his own words, when the lawyer was swallowed upwith business, and the statesman contriving plots, he sat oncowslip-banks hearing the birds sing, and possessed himself in asmuch quietness as the silent silver stream which rippled softlybeside him. THE ANGLERS WISH. I in these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice, Sit here and see the turtle-doveCourt his chaste mate to acts of lo\e : Or on that bank feel the west windBreathe health and plenty : please my mind,To see sweet dewdrops kiss these then washed off by April showers ; Here, hear my Kenna sing a song ; There, see a blackbird feed her young,26.
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