Excerpt from The Sylphs of the Seasons: With Other Poems While Genius' self, infected with the joke, His person decks with Folly's motley cloak. Behold, loud-rattling like a thousand drums, Eccentric Hal, the child of Nature, comes Of Nature once - but now he acts a part, And Hal is now the full grown boy of art. In youth's pure spring his high impetuous soul Nor custom cwn'd nor fashion's vile control. By Truth impell'd where beck'ning Nature led, Through life he mov'd with firm elastic tread; But soon the world, with ...
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Excerpt from The Sylphs of the Seasons: With Other Poems While Genius' self, infected with the joke, His person decks with Folly's motley cloak. Behold, loud-rattling like a thousand drums, Eccentric Hal, the child of Nature, comes Of Nature once - but now he acts a part, And Hal is now the full grown boy of art. In youth's pure spring his high impetuous soul Nor custom cwn'd nor fashion's vile control. By Truth impell'd where beck'ning Nature led, Through life he mov'd with firm elastic tread; But soon the world, with wonder-teeming eyes, His manners mark, and goggle with surprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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