...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on ev'ry charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and weary...

...Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter' d o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every...

...country, and have seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every...

...two charming specimens of execution, by Creswick, the • * '* Loveliest village of the plain," And The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill. Cope has given in No. 3, a vigorous etching of the Hawthorn Bush ; and Redgrave, a capital piece of...

...Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed ; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth,...brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topt the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers...

...Where smiling spring- its earliest visit paid, AnJ parting summer's lingering blooms delayed; Dear raptured t $ topped the neighbouring hill ; The hawthorn bush, with scats beneath the shade, For talking age, and...

...lovely bowers of innocence and eaac, Scats of my youth, when every sport could please; How oftcu havn ng and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, topped the neighbouring hill ; The hawthorn bush, with scats beneath the shade, For talking age, and...

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...Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid, And parting Summer's lingering blooms delay 'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please : How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every...

...much would their beauty be marred by the transfer of a single circumstance from one to the other : •How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered...the cultivated farm ; The never-failing brook, the buny mill, The decent church that topped the neiglib'ring hill; The Imwthorn-bush with seats beneath...