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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... From simple "being" gathering intense bliss, Nor craving higher worlds, so pleased with this--Such is Gaul's daughter--pity, blame, or praise--A thing of smiles, a child of joy-bright days. Another picture--see yon antique pile, Up whose gray front young roses climb and smile, Like infants, vermeil-cheeked, in age's arms, Softening the dark and rugged with their charms. In billowy waves of glossy, living green, Far sweeping round, an English park is seen; There graceful trees, tall verdure-spires, upstart, Or stand in groups, like friends who will not part; The bright-faced streamlet dances in the sun, The flower-kissed waters singing as they run; The rustic bridge time swathes with mosses brown, The cawing rooks from toppling nests look down; And oft on some green knoll. against the sky, Still as carved there, his antler'd head raised high, Pauses the stag, nor hears, amidst the calm, The hunter's horn, but only drinks heaven's balm. Hark! from beyond the wood, where Summer plays, And panting hides her from the solar blaze, Those low, and musical, and plaintive bells, Whose chime by fits through pulseless noontide swells; They seem a voice sent back from vanished years, Piercing closed memory's cell, and prompting tears, Then in blue distance floating, like a sigh From Nature's heart, their tremulous echoes die. She sat where eglantine and roses made, Sweet, wedded flowers, a cool delicious shade, Her sire's old mansion near, and that wide lawn, Rich with moss'd stream, and tree, and gambolling fawn. Oh! beautiful she looked, as languor now Paled her soft cheek, and thought illumed her brow. Hers was a face the limner, ravished, paints, Proud as a Juno's, gentle as a saint's. She realised each charm that Art hath thrown On glowing canvas, or 'round breat...
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