(to a brook near the village of Corston.) As thus I bend me o`er thy babbling stream And watch thy current, Memory`s hand pourtrays The faint form`d scenes of the departed days, Like the far forest by the moon`s pale beam Dimly descried yet lovely. I have worn Upon thy banks the live-long hour away, When sportive Childhood wantoned thro` the day, Joy`d at the opening splendour of the morn, Or as the twilight darken`d, heaved the sigh Thinking of distant home; as down my cheek At the fond thought slow stealing on, would speak The silent eloquence of the full eye. Dim are the long past days, yet still they please As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze.SourceThe script ran 0.001 seconds.
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