...moment it has left tlie virgin's eye, Or rain-drop lingering on the pointed thorn. TO A SKY-LARK.. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thiue ! THOUGHTS. -Our thoughts, Pleasant as roses in the thickets blown, And pure as dew bathing their...

...Curiosities. > TO A SKYLARK. ETHEREAL Minstrel! Pilgrim of ihe sky ! Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground 7 Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will: Those quivering wings composed, that music still! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound 7 Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye CTwixt...

...? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy neat which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! that love-prompted strain ('Twixt...

...sky ! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest, upon the dewy ground ? — Thy...Those quivering wings composed, that music still. To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! That love-prompted strain ('Twixt...

...sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest,...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that love-prompted strain ('Twixt...

...sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest,...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ' To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! — that love-prompted strain ('Twixt...

...the plain : Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood, — A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whenee thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinet more divine : Type of the...

...sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest...; Those quivering wings composed, that music still ; To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler ! that love-prompted strain (Twixt...

...destined to control the jarring passions, deep deceptions, and selfish devices, of men. CHAPTER II. "Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy...dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine ; Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven...

...divine; Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home." A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood WORDSWORTH. WHILE John of Aragon had recourse to such means to enable his son to escape the vigilant...