Where Indolence (for so the wizard hight) Close-hid his castle mid embowering trees, murmur made. 1 adorned. 2 cast. 3 care-free. mingled.sleepiness. also. annoyance. To lighten and to cheer. Oh, lead my mindA mind that fain would wander from its 45 While some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the city, some the hermitage, Lead it through various scenes of life and Their aims as various as the roads they woe death, take Till now I never heard a sound so dreary: Doors creak, and windows clap, and night's foul bird, When it draws near the witching time of night.) 55 Oft in the lone church-yard at night I've seen, By glimpse of moonshine chequering through the trees, The school-boy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up, And lightly tripping o'er the long flat stones, 60 (With nettles skirted, and with moss o'ergrown,) That tell in homely phrase who lie below. Sudden he starts, and hears, or thinks he hears, 1 cowering. By fairy hands their knell is rung, ODE TO EVENING If ought of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales, O nymph reserved, while now the brighthaired sun 5 Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede1 ethereal wove, Now air is hushed, save where the weakeyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale May not unseemly with its stillness suit, 1 embroidery. 20 |