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Beautiful Poetry. ODE ON THE SPRING. By GRAY, well known to every reader as the author of the famous Elegy. The untaught harmony of Spring: Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch Beside some water's rushy brink Still is the toiling hand of Care : The insect youth are on the wing, And float amid the liquid noon : To Contemplation's sober eye, And they that creep, and they that fly, But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colonrs dress'd : Methinks I hear, in accents low, "Poor moralist! and what art thou? Thy joys no glittering female meets, SLEEP. A passage from Endymion, by KEATS. So she was gently glad to see him laid Under her favourite bower's quiet shade, On her own couch, new made of flower leaves, Dried carefully on the cooler side of sheaves, When last the sun his autumn tresses shook, And the tann'd harvesters rich armfuls took. Soon was he quieted to slumbrous rest: But, ere it crept upon him, he had prest Peona's busy hand against his lips, And still, a-sleeping, held her finger-tips In tender pressure. And as a willow keeps A patient watch over the stream that creeps Windingly by it, so the quiet made Held her in peace: so that a whispering blade |