...that forms the subject of the following pages. CHAP TEE III. " Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth; And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring." GBAT'S ODE TO ETON COLLEGE. IT...

...the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah. happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, liel'ds Ah ! well I ween, that if with pencil true That splendid vision Л momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, Jly weary soul they seem to soothe,...

...and " grinning infamy," to happy hills and pleasing shade, with the certain and welcome sensation, " I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they teem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring." Well do we remember our...

...hills — ah! pleasing shades, Ah ! fields, beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And redolent of joy and youth, As waving fresh their gladsome wing,...

...happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields heloved in Tain, Where once my careless childhood suay'd A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye hlow A momentary hliss hestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing. My weary soul they seem to sooth,...

...happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields heloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye hlow A momentary hliss hestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth,...

...His silver- winding3 way ; — Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah fields heloved in vain ! 4 Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you hlow A momentary hliss bestow, . As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to...

...dream of woods and meadows green On Thames's banks that lie. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain.* * From Gray's Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. Return, return, inconstant thoughts ; What...

...almost the expression, of those lines so familiar to every feeling mind and poetical ear, beginning— " I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow," &c. " Going yearly to Boston for the connaturalness of that air, and to Winchester and Oxford for recreation,...

...but the reminiscence of a man regretful of departed youth : Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain ! How feelingly he anticipates the coming experience of the sporting boys ! regardless of their doom,...