Excerpt from English Poems: Illustrated With Etchings The lazy mist hangs from the brow Of the hill, Concealing the course of the dark winding rill; How languid the scenes, late so sprightly, appear, As autumn to-winter resigns the pale year! The forests are leafless, the meadows are brown, And all the gay foppery Of summer is own: Apart let me wander, apart let me muse, how quicktime is ying, how keen fate pursues; How long I have lived, but how much lived in vain; How little of life's scanty span may remain; What ...
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Excerpt from English Poems: Illustrated With Etchings The lazy mist hangs from the brow Of the hill, Concealing the course of the dark winding rill; How languid the scenes, late so sprightly, appear, As autumn to-winter resigns the pale year! The forests are leafless, the meadows are brown, And all the gay foppery Of summer is own: Apart let me wander, apart let me muse, how quicktime is ying, how keen fate pursues; How long I have lived, but how much lived in vain; How little of life's scanty span may remain; What aspects Old Time in his progress has worn; What ties cruel Fate in my bosom has torn. 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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