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She who is all the world; and can exclude

In deserts solitude。

I should have then this only fear:

Lest men; when they my pleasures see;

Should hither throng to live like me;

And so make a city here。



Abraham Cowley '1618…1667'





EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY




〃Why; William; on that old gray stone;

Thus for the length of half a day;

Why; William; sit you thus alone;

And dream your time away?



〃Where are your books? … that light bequeathed

To beings else forlorn and blind!

Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed

From dead men to their kind。



〃You look round on your Mother Earth;

As if she for no purpose bore you;

As if you were her first…born birth;

And none had lived before you!〃



One morning thus; by Esthwaite lake;

When life was sweet; I knew not why;

To me my good friend Matthew spake

And thus I made reply:



〃The eye … it cannot choose but see;

We cannot bid the ear be still;

Our bodies feel; where'er they be;

Against or with our will。



〃Nor less I dream that there are Powers

Which of themselves our minds impress;

That we can feed this mind of ours

In a wise passiveness。



〃Think you; 'mid all this mighty sum

Of things forever speaking;

That nothing of itself will come;

But we must still be seeking?



〃… Then ask not wherefore; here; alone;

Conversing as I may;

I sit upon this old gray stone;

And dream my time away。〃



William Wordsworth '1770…1850'





THE TABLES TURNED

An Evening Scene On The Same Subject



Up! up! my friend; and quit your books;

Or surely you'll grow double:

Up! up! my friend; and clear your looks;

Why all this toil and trouble?



The sun; above the mountain's head;

A freshening luster mellow

Through all the long green fields has spread;

His first sweet evening yellow。



Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:

Come; hear the woodland linnet;

How sweet his music! on my life

There's more of wisdom in it。



And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!

He; too; is no mean preacher:

Come forth into the light of things;

Let Nature be your teacher。



She has a world of ready wealth;

Our minds and hearts to bless …

Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health;

Truth breathed by cheerfulness。



One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man;

Of moral evil and of good;

Than all the sages can。



Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;

Our meddling intellect

Misshapes the beauteous forms of things: …

We murder to dissect。



Enough of Science and of Art;

Close up those barren leaves;

Come forth; and bring with you a heart

That watches and receives。



William Wordsworth '1770…1850'





SIMPLE NATURE




Be it not mine to steal the cultured flower

From any garden of the rich and great;

Nor seek with care; through many a weary hour;

Some novel form of wonder to create。

Enough for me the leafy woods to rove;

And gather simple cups of morning dew;

Or; in the fields and meadows that I love;

Find beauty in their bells of every hue。

Thus round my cottage floats a fragrant air;

And though the rustic plot be humbly laid;

Yet; like the lilies gladly growing there;

I have not toiled; but take what God has made。

My Lord Ambition passed; and smiled in scorn;

I plucked a rose; and; lo! it had no thorn。



George John Romanes '1848…1894'





〃I FEAR NO POWER A WOMAN WIELDS〃



I fear no power a woman wields

While I can have the woods and fields;

With comradeship alone of gun;

Gray marsh…wastes and the burning sun。



For aye the heart's most poignant pain

Will wear away 'neath hail and rain;

And rush of winds through branches bare

With something still to do and dare; …



The lonely watch beside the shore;

The wild…fowl's cry; the sweep of oar;

The paths of virgin sky to scan

Untrod; and so uncursed by man。



Gramercy; for thy haunting face;

Thy charm of voice and lissome grace;

I fear no power a woman wields

While I can have the woods and fields。



Ernest McGaffey '1861…





A RUNNABLE STAG



When the pods went pop on the broom; green broom

And apples began to be golden…skinned;

We harbored a stag in the Priory coomb;

And we feathered his trail up…wind; up…wind;

We feathered his trail up…wind …

A stag of warrant; a stag; a stag;

A runnable stag; a kingly crop;

Brow; bay and tray and three on top;

A stag; a runnable stag。



Then the huntsman's horn rang yap; yap; yap;

And 〃Forwards〃 we heard the harborer shout;

But 'twas only a brocket that broke a gap

In the beechen underwood; driven out;

From the underwood antlered out

By warrant and might of the stag; the stag;

The runnable stag; whose lordly mind

Was bent on sleep; though beamed and tined

He stood; a runnable stag。



So we tufted the covert till afternoon

With Tinkerman's Pup and Bell…of…the…North;

And hunters were sulky and hounds out of tune

Before we tufted the right stag forth;

Before we tufted him forth;

The stag of warrant; the wily stag;

The runnable stag with his kingly crop;


Brow; bay and tray and three on top;

The royal and runnable stag。



It was Bell…of…the…North and Tinkerman's Pup

That stuck to the scent till the copse was drawn。

〃Tally ho! tally ho!〃 and the hunt was up;

The tufters whipped and the pack laid on;

The resolute pack laid on;

And the stag of warrant away at last;

The runnable stag; the same; the same;

His hoofs on fire; his horns like flame;

A stag; a runnable stag。



〃Let your gelding be: if you check or chide

He stumbles at once and you're out of the hunt;

For three hundred gentlemen; able to ride;

On hunters accustomed to bear the brunt;

Accustomed to bear the brunt;

Are after the runnable stag; the stag;

The runnable stag with his kingly crop

Brow; bay and tray and three on top;

The right; the runnable stag。〃



By perilous paths in coomb and dell;

The heather; the rocks; and the river…bed;

The pace grew hot; for the scent lay well;

And a runnable stag goes right ahead;

The quarry went right ahead …

Ahead; ahead; and fast and far;

His antlered crest; his cloven hoof;

Brow; bay and tray and three aloof;

The stag; the runnable stag。



For a matter of twenty miles and more;

By the densest hedge and the highest wall;

Through herds of bullocks he baffled the lore

Of harborer; huntsman; hounds and all;

Of harborer; hounds and all …

The stag of warrant; the wily stag;

For twenty miles; and five and five;

He ran; and he never was caught alive;

This stag; this runnable stag。



When he turned at bay in the leafy gloom;

In the emerald gloom where the brook ran deep;

He heard in the distance the rollers boom;

And he saw in a vision of peaceful sleep;

In a wonderful vision of sleep;

A stag of warrant; a stag; a stag;

A runnable stag in a jewelled bed;

Under the sheltering ocean dead;

A stag; a runnable stag。



So a fateful hope lit up his eye;

And he opened his nostrils wide again;

And he tossed his branching antlers high

As he headed the hunt down the Charloch glen;

As he raced down the echoing glen …

For five miles more; the stag; the stag;

For twenty miles; and five and five;

Not to be caught now; dead or alive;

The stag; the runnable stag。



Three hundred gentlemen; able to ride;

Three hundred horses as gallant and free;

Beheld him escape on the evening tide;

Far out till he sank in the Severn Sea;

Till he sank in the depths of the sea …

The stag; the buoyant stag; the stag

That slept at last in a jewelled bed

Under the sheltering ocean spread;

The stag; the runnable stag。



John Davidson '1857…1909'





HUNTING…SONG

From 〃King Arthur〃



Oh; who would stay indoor; indoor;

When the horn is on the hill? (Bugle: Tarantara!

With the crisp air stinging; and the huntsmen singing;

And a ten…tined buck to kill!



Before the sun goes down; goes down;

We shall slay the buck of ten; (Bugle: Tarantara!

And the priest shall say benison; and we shall ha'e venison;

When we come home again。



Let him that loves his ease; his ease;

Keep close and house him fair; (Bugle: Tarantara!

He'll still be a stranger to the merry thrill of danger

And the joy of the open air。



But he that loves the hills; the hills;

Let him come out to…day! (Bugle: Tarantara!

For the horses are neighing; and the hounds are baying;

And the hunt's up; and away!



Richard Hovey '1864…1900'





〃A…HUNTING WE WILL GO〃

From 〃Don Quixote in England〃



The  dusky night rides down the sky;

And ushers in the morn;

The hounds all join in glorious cry;

The huntsman winds his horn。

And a…hunting we will go。



The wife around her husband throws

Her arms to make him stay;

〃My dear; it rains; it hails; it blows;

You cannot hunt to…day。〃

Yet a…hunting we will go。



Away they fly to 'scape the rout;

Their steeds they soundly switch;

Some are thrown in; and some thrown out;

And some thrown in the ditch。

Yet a…hunting we will go。



Sly Reynard now like lightning flies;

And sweeps across the vale;

And when the hounds too near he spies;

He drops his bushy tail。

Then a…hunting we will go。



Fond Echo seems to like the sport;

And join the jovial cry;

The woods; the hills; the sound retort;

And music fills the sky;

When a…hunting we do go。



At last his strength to faintness worn;

Poor Reynard ceases flight;

Then hungry; homeward we return;

To feast away the night。

And a…drinking we do go。



Ye jovial hunters; in the morn

Prepare then for the chase;

Rise at the sounding of the horn

And health with sport embrace;

When a…hunting we do go。



Henry Fielding '1707…1754'





THE ANGLER'S INVITATION



Come when the leaf comes; angle with me;

Come when the bee hums over the lea;

Come with the wild flowers …

Come with the wild showers …

Come w
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