The shining giver of the day diffuse

His brightness o'er a tract of sea and land

Gay as our spirits, free as our desires,

As our enjoyments boundless. From those heights

We dropped, at pleasure, into sylvan combs;
Where arbours of impenetrable shade,

And mossy seats, detained us side by side,
With hearts at ease, and knowledge in our hearts
"That all the grove and all the day was ours."

WORDSWORTH

LO, YONDER shed! observe its garden ground, With the low paling, form'd of wreck, around: There dwells a fisher: if you view his boat, With bed and barrel-'t is his house afloat; Look at his house, where ropes, nets, blocks abound, Tar, pitch, and oakum-'t is his boat aground:

That space enclosed but little he regards,

Spread o'er with relics of masts, sails, and yards;

Fish by the wall, on spit of elder, rest,

Of all his food the cheapest and the best,

By his own labour caught, for his own hunger dress'd.

Here our reformers come not; none object
To paths polluted, or upbraid neglect;
None care that ashy heaps at doors are cast,
That coal-dust flies along the blinding blast;
None heed the stagnant pools on either side,
Where new-launch'd ships of infant sailors ride :
Rodneys in rags here British valour boast,
And lisping Nelsons fright the Gallic coast;
They fix the rudder, set the swelling sail,
They point the bowsprit, and they blow the gale.

CRABBE

How SWEET it is, when mother Fancy rocks

The wayward brain, to saunter through a wood!

An old place, full of many a lovely brood,

Tall trees, green arbours, and ground flowers in flocks; And wild rose tip-toe upon hawthorn stocks,

Like to the bonny lass, who plays her pranks

At Wakes and Fairs with wandering Mountebanks,When she stands cresting the Clown's head, and mocks

The crowd beneath her. Verily I think,

Such place to me is sometimes like a dream

Or map of the whole world: thoughts, link by link,
Enter through ears and eyesight, with such gleam
Of all things, that at last in fear I shrink,
And leap at once from the delicious stream.

WORDSWORTH

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