...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on ev'ry charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring...

...visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd ; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ; How often have I paused on every...

...Where humble happiness endear' d each scene ; How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the ncighb'ring hill; The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers...

...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on ev'ry charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and weary...

...visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every...

...visit paid, And parting summer's Ungering blooms delay'd: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have 1 loiterM o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear' J each scene! How often have I paused on every...

...two charming specimens of execution, by Creswick, the • * '* Loveliest village of the plain," And The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill. Cope has given in No. 3, a vigorous etching of the Hawthorn Bush ; and Redgrave, a capital piece of...

...then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every...

...visit paid, And parting summer's ling'ring blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease , Seats of my youth , when every sport could please , How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green , Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every...

...visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed ; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,...brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topt the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers...