This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...press'd, and gently kiss'd the ground; Where on the flow'ry herb as soft he lay, Thus to his soul the sage began to say: What will ye next ordain, ye pow'rs on high! And yet, ah yet, what fates are we to try? 600 Here by the stream, if I the night outwear, Thus spent already, how shall nature bear The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...press'd, and gently kiss'd the ground; Where on the flow'ry herb as soft he lay, Thus to his soul the sage began to say: What will ye next ordain, ye pow'rs on high! And yet, ah yet, what fates are we to try? 600 Here by the stream, if I the night outwear, Thus spent already, how shall nature bear The dews descending, and nocturnal air; Or chilly vapours, breathing from the flood When morning rises? If I take the wood, 60J And in thick shelter of innum'ious boughs Enjoy the comfort gentle sleep allows; Though fenc'd from cold, and though my toil be past, What savage beasts may wander in the waste? Perhaps I yet may fall a bloody prey 610 To prowling bears, or lions in the way. Thus long debating in himself he stood: At length he took the passage to the wood, Whose shady horrors on a rising brow 64 Wav'd high, and frown'd upon the stream below. There grew two olives, closest of the grove, With roots entwin'd, and branches interwove; Alike their leaves, but not alike they smil'd With sister-fruits; one fertile, one was wild. Nor here the sun's meridian rays had pow'r, 620 Nor wind sharp piercing, nor the rushing show'r; The verdant arch so close its texture kept: Beneath this covert great Ulysses crept. Of gather'd leaves an ample bed he made, 624 (Thick strown by tempest through the bow'ry shade) Where three at least might winter's cold defy, Though Boreas rag'd along th' inclement sky. This store, with joy the patient hero found, And, sunk amidst 'em, heap'd the leaves around. As some poor peasant, fated to reside 630 Remote from neighbours in a forest wide, Studious to save what human wants require, In embers heap'd, preserves the seeds of fire: Hid in dry foliage thus Ulysses lies, Till Pallas pour'd soft slumbers on his eyes; 635 And...
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