(2.) " A petal falls ! the spring begins to fail,
And my heart saddens ivith the growing gale. Come then, ere autumn spoils bestrew the ground^ Do not forget to pass the wine-cup round. Kingfishers build where man once laughed elate, And now stone dragons guard his graveyard gate! Who follows pleasure, he alone is wise; Why waste our life in deeds of high emprise f"
(3.) " My home is girdled by a limpid stream,
And there in summer days life's movements fause t Save where some swallow flits from beam to beam, And the wild sea-gull near and nearer draws.
" The goodwife rules a paper board for chess ; The children beat a fish-hook out of wire ; My ailments call for physic more or less,
What else should this poor frame of mine require?*
(4.) "Alone I wandered o'er the hills
to seek the hermifs den, While sounds of chopping rang around
the fores fs leafy glen. I passed on ice across the brook,
which had not ceased tofreeze. As the slanting rays of afternoon
shot sparkling through the trees.
" I found he did not joy to gloat
der fetid wealth by night, But, far from taint, to watch the deer
in the golden morning light. . . . My mind was clear at coming;
but now I've lost my guide, And rudderless my little bark
is drifting with the tide ! "
(5.) " From the Court every eve to the pawnshop I pass.
To come back from the river the drunkest of men; As of:en as not I'm in debt for my glass j Well, few of us live to be threescore and ten.
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