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Come with the wild flowers …

Come with the wild showers …

Come when the singing bird calleth for thee!



Then to the stream side; gladly we'll hie;

Where the gray trout glide silently by;

Or in some still place

Over the hill face 

Hurrying onward; drop the light fly。



Then; when the dew falls; homeward we'll speed

To our own loved walls down on the mead;

There; by the bright hearth;

Holding our night mirth;

We'll drink to sweet friendship in need and in deed。



Thomas Tod Stoddart '1810…1880'





THE ANGLER'S WISH

From 〃The Complete Angler〃



I in these flowery mends would be;

These crystal streams should solace me; 

To whose harmonious bubbling noise

I; with my angle; would rejoice;

Sit here; and see the turtle…dove

Court his chaste mate to acts of love;



Or; on that bank; feel the west…wind

Breathe health and plenty; please my mind;

To see sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers;

And then washed off by April showers;

Here; hear my Kenna sing a song:

There; see a blackbird feed her young;



Or a laverock build her nest;

Here; give my weary spirits rest;

And raise my low…pitched thoughts above

Earth; or what poor mortals love:

Thus; free from lawsuits; and the noise

Of princes' courts; I would rejoice;



Or; with my Bryan and a book;

Loiter long days near Shawford brook;

There sit by him; and eat my meat;

There see the sun both rise and set;

There bid good morning to next day;

There meditate my time away;

And angle on; and beg to have

A quiet passage to a welcome grave。



Izaak Walton '1593…1683'





THE ANGLER

In 〃The Complete Angler〃



O the gallant fisher's life;

It is the best of any!

'Tis full of pleasure; void of strife;

And 'tis beloved by many;

Other joys

Are but toys;

Only this

Lawful is;

For our skill

Breeds no ill;

But content and pleasure。



In a morning; up we rise;

Ere Aurora's peeping;


Drink a cup to wash our eyes;

Leave the sluggard sleeping;

Then we go

To and fro;

With our knacks

At our backs;

To such streams

As the Thames;

If we have the leisure。



When we please to walk abroad

For our recreation;

In the fields is our abode;

Full of delectation;

Where; in a brook;

With a hook; …

Or a lake; …

Fish we take;

There we sit;

For a bit;

Till we fish entangle。



We have gentles in a horn;

We have paste and worms too;

We can watch both night and morn;

Suffer rain and storms too;

None do here

Use to swear:

Oaths do fray

Fish away;

We sit still;

Watch our quill:

Fishers must not wrangle。



If the sun's excessive heat

Make our bodies swelter;

To an osier hedge we get;

For a friendly shelter;

Where; in a dike;

Perch or pike;

Roach or dace;

We do chase;

Bleak or gudgeon;

Without grudging;

We are still contented。



Or we sometimes pass an hour

Under a green willow;

That defends us from a shower;

Making earth our pillow;

Where we may

Think and pray;

Before death

Stops our breath;

Other joys

Are but toys;

And to be lamented。



John Chalkhill 'fl。 1648'















WANDERLUST













TO JANE: THE INVITATION



Best and Brightest; come away!

Fairer far than this fair day;

Which; like thee; to those in sorrow;

Comes to bid a sweet good…morrow

To the rough year just awake

In its cradle on the brake。

The brightest hour of unborn Spring

Through the winter wandering;

Found; it seems; the halcyon morn

To hoar February born;

Bending from Heaven; in azure mirth;

It kissed the forehead of the earth;

And smiled upon the silent sea;

And bade the frozen streams be free;

And waked to music all their fountains;

And breathed upon the frozen mountains;

And like a prophetess of May

Strewed flowers upon the barren way;

Making the wintry world appear

Like one on whom thou smilest; Dear。



Away; away; from men and towns;

To the wild wood and the downs …

To the silent wilderness

Where the soul need not repress

Its music; lest it should not find

An echo in another's mind;

While the touch of Nature's art

Harmonizes heart to heart。



I leave this notice on my door

For each accustomed visitor: …

〃I am gone into the fields

To take what this sweet hour yields; …

Reflection; you may come to…morrow;

Sit by the fireside with Sorrow。 …

You with the unpaid bill; Despair; …

You tiresome verse…reciter; Care; …

I will pay you in the grave; …

Death will listen to your stave。

Expectation too; be off!

To…day is for itself enough;

Hope; in pity mock not Woe

With smiles; nor follow where I go;

Long having lived on thy sweet food;

At length I find one moment's good

Alter long pain … with all your love;

This you never told me of。〃



Radiant Sister of the Day

Awake! arise! and come away!

To the wild woods and the plains;

To the pools where winter rains

Image all their roof of leaves;

Where the pine its garland weaves

Of sapless green; and ivy dun;

Round sterns that never kiss the sun。

Where the lawns and pastures be;

And the sandhills of the sea; …

Where the melting hoar…frost wets

The daisy…star that never sets;

And wind…flowers; and violets;

Which yet join not scent to hue;

Crown the pale year weak and new;

When the night is left behind

In the deep east; dun and blind;

And the blue noon is over us;

And the multitudinous

Billows murmur at our feet;

Where the earth and ocean meet;

And all things seem only one

In the universal sun。



Percy Bysshe Shelley '1792…1822'





〃MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS〃



My heart's in the Highlands; my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highlands a…chasing the deer;

A…chasing the wild deer; and following the roe; …

My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go。



Farewell to the Highlands; farewell to the North;

The birthplace of valor; the country of worth;

Wherever I wander; wherever I rove;

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love。



Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow;

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;

Farewell to the forests and wild…hanging woods;

Farewell to the torrents and loud…pouring floods。



My heart's in the Highlands; my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highlands a…chasing the deer;

A…chasing the wild deer; and following the roe; …

My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go。



Robert Burns '1759…1796'





〃AFAR IN THE DESERT〃



Afar in the desert I love to ride;

With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。

When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast;

And; sick of the present; I cling to the past;

When the eye is suffused with regretful tears;

From the fond recollections of former years;

And shadows of things that have long since fled

Flit over the brain; like the ghosts of the dead:

Bright visions of glory that vanished too soon;

Day…dreams that departed ere manhood's noon;

Attachments by fate or falsehood reft;

Companions of early days lost or left …

And my native land … whose magical name

Thrills to the heart like electric flame;

The home of my childhood; the haunts of my prime;

All the passions and scenes of that rapturous time

When the feelings were young; and the world was new;

Like the fresh bowers of Eden unfolding to view;

All … all now forsaken … forgotten … foregone!

And I … a lone exile remembered of none …

My high aims abandoned; … my good acts undone …

Aweary of all that is under the sun …

With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan;

I fly to the desert afar from man。



Afar in the desert I love to ride;

With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side;

When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life;

With its scenes of oppression; corruption; and strife …

The proud man's frown; and the base man's fear …

The scorner's laugh; and the sufferer's tear …

And malice; and meanness; and falsehood; and folly;

Dispose me to musing and dark melancholy;

When my bosom is full; and my thoughts are high;

And my soul is sick with the bondman's sigh …

Oh! then there is freedom; and joy; and pride;

Afar in the desert alone to ride!

There is rapture to vault on the champing steed;

And to bound away with the eagle's speed;

With the death…fraught firelock in my hand …

The only law of the Desert Land!



Afar in the desert I love to ride;

With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。

Away … away from the dwellings of men;

By the wild deer's haunt; by the buffalo's glen;

By valleys remote where the oribi plays;

Where the gnu; the gazelle; and the hartebeest graze;

And the kudu and eland unhunted recline

By the skirts of gray forest o'erhung with wild vine:

Where the elephant browses at peace in his wood;

And the river…horse gambols unscared in the flood;

And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will

In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill。



Afar in the desert I love to ride;

With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。

O'er the brown karroo; where the bleating cry

Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively:

And the timorous quagga's shrill whistling neigh

Is heard by the fountain at twilight gray;

Where the zebra wantonly tosses his mane;

With wild hoof scouring the desolate plain;

And the fleet…footed ostrich over the waste

Speeds like a horseman who travels in haste;

Hieing away to the home of her rest;

Where she and her mate have scooped their nest;

Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view

In the pathless depths of the parched karroo。



Afar in the desert I love to ride;

With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。

Away … away … in the wilderness vast

Where the white man's foot hath never passed;

And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan

Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan:

A region of emptiness; howling and drear;

Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear;

Which the snake and the lizard inhabit
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