...To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. 16 Exodus 16:18: "And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered...

..."Solitary," written in 1820, takes the idea of Ruskin further: "To climb the trackless mountains all unseen, the wild flock that never needs a fold, alone o'er...lean, This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse the Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled" (Styles 337). Byron, in "Solitary," mentions the...

...mango tope. Only when in thought we go back to happy rambles away from the hum of men, 'Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been,' is the horrid phantom absent. On the breezy hill-top, with its scented grass, its ferns and wild flowers,...

...HILLS. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er food and feU, To slowly twee the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot...climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wBd lock that never needs a fold j Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude;...