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Where Indolence (for so the wizard hight)

Close-hid his castle mid embowering trees,

murmur made.

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3 care-free. mingled.sleepiness. also. annoyance.

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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

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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.)

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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,

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(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,

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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 10
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there!

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

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Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts,

With brede1 ethereal wove,
O'erhang his wavy bed:

Now air is hushed, save where the weakeyed bat,

With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing,

Or where the beetle winds
His small but sullen horn,

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Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale

May not unseemly with its stillness suit,
As, musing slow, I hail
Thy genial loved return!

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