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expressing the effects of a fine day on the human heart.

Fat on the plain and mountain's sunny side
Large droves of oxen and the fleecy flocks
Feed undisturbed, and fill the echoing air
With Music grateful to their Master's ear.
The Traveller flops and gazes round and round
O'er all the plains that animate his heart
With Mirth and Music. Even the mendicant
Bow-bent with age, that on the old gray stone
Sole-sitting suns him in the public way,
Feels his heart leap, and to himself he sings.

Note 11.——Page 111.

The expression "green radiance" is borrowed from Mr. Wordsworth, a Poet whose versification is occasionally harsh and his diction too frequently obscure: but whom I deem unrivalled among the