Alike they smile on you and me, While pleasure's fleeting form you trace In Mona's distant isle, And leave forlorn your native place ENEAS pass'd with branch of gold Can smooth your porter's brow; But wand'ring Highland folks like me, Can seldom purchase Liberty. While musing by the Tilt I stood, And beckoning, shew'd its side: Beneath the bridge's bending arch While birds methought on every tree The leaden gods above the gate PEACEFUL SHADES. "My dear-lov'd home, "Which trees embosom, and which hills defend." SHENSTONE. YE peaceful shades! that guard my dear-lov'd home From the chill blasts that stip the fading grove, While far from that sequester'd scene I roam, Which justly claims my venerating love. Long may the verdure linger on your boughs, Which wont in happier times to deck the shepherd's brows! And thou, sweet stream, that wand'ring thro' the vale With mazy windings, lead'st thy waves along; May thy translucent waters never fail To feed the lake or aid the rural song: For echo pleas'd retains thy murmurs sweet, Where with the bubbling Tarfe thy lucidwaters meet. Fair is the bosom of that peaceful lake When winter's rage declining Nature weeps: Ye woods of wild Glentarfe, whose pensive gloom Round SYLVIA's dwelling spreads a solemn shade; How dear to memory is your former bloom, When SYLVIA's sprightly converse cheer'd the glade. When spring returns to deck the green retreat, Again with joy I'll hail the well-known seat, The scene of social joys and tranquil pleasures sweet. |