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Far in a wild unknown to public view	A
From youth to age a rev'rend hermit grew	A
The moss his bed the cave his humble cell	B
His food the fruits his drink the crystal well	B
Remote from man with God he pass'd the days	C
Pray'r all his bus'ness all his pleasure praise	C
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A life so sacred such serene repose	D
Seem'd heav'n itself till one suggestion rose	D
That vice should triumph virtue vice obey	E
This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway	E
His hopes no more a certain prospect boast	F
And all the tenor of his soul is lost	G
So when a smooth expanse receives imprest	G
Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast	G
Down bend the banks the trees depending grow	H
And skies beneath with answering colours glow	H
But if a stone the gentle scene divide	G
Swift ruffling circles curl on ev'ry side	G
And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun	I
Banks trees and skies in thick disorder run	I
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To clear this doubt to know the world by sight	G
To find if books or swains report it right	G
For yet by swains alone the world he knew	A
Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew	A
He quits his cell the pilgrim staff he bore	J
And fix'd the scallop in his hat before	J
Then with the sun a rising journey went	G
Sedate to think and watching each event	G
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The morn was wasted in the pathless grass	K
And long and lonesome was the wild to pass	K
But when the southern sun had warm'd the day	G
A youth came posting o'er a crossing way	G
His raiment decent his complexion fair	L
And soft in graceful ringlets wav'd his hair	L
Then near approaching quot Father hail quot he cried	G
quot And hail my son quot the rev'rend sire replied	G
Words follow'd words from question answer flow'd	G
And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road	G
Till each with other pleas'd and loth to part	G
While in their age they differ join in heart	G
Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound	G
Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around	G
	-
Now sunk the sun the closing hour of day	G
Came onward mantled o'er with sober gray	G
Nature in silence bid the world repose	D
When near the road a stately palace rose	D
There by the moon through ranks of trees they pass	K
Whose verdure crown'd their sloping sides of grass	K
It chanc'd the noble master of the dome	M
Still made his house the wand'ring stranger's home	M
Yet still the kindness from a thirst of praise	C
Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease	N
The pair arrive the liv'ried servants wait	G
Their lord receives them at the pompous gate	G
The table groans with costly piles of food	G
And all is more than hospitably good	G
Then led to rest the day's long toil they drown	O
Deep sunk in sleep and silk and heaps of down	O
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At length 'tis morn and at the dawn of day	G
Along the wide canals the zephyrs play	G
Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep	P
And shake the neighb'ring wood to banish sleep	P
Up rise the guests obedient to the call	Q
An early banquet deck'd the splendid hall	Q
Rich luscious wine a golden goblet grac'd	G
Which the kind master forc'd the guests to taste	G
Then pleas'd and thankful from the porch they go	H
And but the landlord none had cause of woe	H
His cup was vanish'd for in secret guise	R
The younger guest purloin'd the glitt'ring prize	R
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As one who spies a serpent in his way	G
Glist'ning and basking in the summer ray	G
Disorder'd stops to shun the danger near	S
Then walks with faintness on and looks with fear	S
So seem'd the sire when far upon the road	G
The shining spoil his wily partner show'd	G
He stopp'd with silence walk'd with trembling heart	G
And much he wish'd but durst not ask to part	G
Murmuring he lifts his eyes and thinks it hard	G
That gen'rous actions meet a base reward	G
	-
While thus they pass the sun his glory shrouds	T
The changing skies hang out their sable clouds	T
A sound in air presag'd approaching rain	U
And beasts to covert scud across the plain	U
Warn'd by the signs the wand'ring pair retreat	G
To seek for shelter at a neighb'ring seat	G
'Twas built with turrets on a rising ground	G
And strong and large and unimprov'd around	G
Its owner's temper tim'rous and severe	S
Unkind and griping caus'd a desert there	L
	-
As near the miser's heavy doors they drew	A
Fierce rising gusts with sudden fury blew	A
The nimble lightning mix'd with showers began	V
And o'er their heads loud rolling thunders ran	V
Here long they knock but knock or call in vain	U
Driven by the wind and batter'd by the rain	U
At length some pity warm'd the master's breast	G
'Twas then his threshold first receiv'd a guest	G
Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care	L
And half he welcomes in the shiv'ring pair	L
One frugal faggot lights the naked walls	W
And Nature's fervour through their limbs recalls	W
Bread of the coarsest sort with eager wine	X
Each hardly granted serv'd them both to dine	X
And when the tempest first appear'd to cease	Y
A ready warning bid them part in peace	Y
With still remark the pond'ring hermit view'd	G
In one so rich a life so poor and rude	G
And why should such within himself he cried	G
Lock the lost wealth a thousand want beside	G
But what new marks of wonder soon took place	Z
In every settling feature of his face	Z
When from his vest the young companion bore	J
That cup the gen'rous landlord own'd before	J
And paid profusely with the precious bowl	A2
The stinted kindness of this churlish soul	A2
	-
But now the clouds in airy tumult fly	B2
The sun emerging opes an azure sky	B2
A fresher green the smelling leaves display	G
And glitt'ring as they tremble cheer the day	G
The weather courts them from their poor retreat	G
And the glad master bolts the wary gate	G
	-
While hence they walk the pilgrim's bosom wrought	G
Wlth all the travel of uncertain thought	G
His partner's acts without their cause appear	S
'Twas there a vice and seem'd a madness here	C2
Detesting that and pitying this he goes	D
Lost and confounded with the various shows	D
	-
Now night's dim shades again involve the sky	B2
Again the wanderers want a place to lie	B2
Again they search and find a lodging nigh	B2
The soil improv'd around the mansion neat	G
And neither poorly low nor idly great	G
It seem'd to speak its master's turn of mind	G
Content and not for praise but virtue kind	G
	-
Hither the walkers turn with weary feet	G
Then bless the mansion and the master greet	G
Their greeting fair bestow'd with modest guise	R
The courteous master hears and thus replies	R
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quot Without a vain without a grudging heart	G
To Him who gives us all I yield a part	G
From Him you come for Him accept it here	C2
A frank and sober more than costly cheer quot	G
He spoke and bid the welcome table spread	G
Then talk'd of virtue till the time of bed	G
When the grave household round his hall repair	L
Warn'd by a bell and close the hours with pray'r	D2
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At length the world renew'd by calm repose	D
Was strong for toil the dappled morn arose	D
Before the pilgrims part the younger crept	G
Near the clos'd cradle where an infant slept	G
And writh'd his neck the landlord's little pride	G
O strange return grew black and gasp'd and died	G
Horrors of horrors what his only son	I
How look'd our hermit when the fact was done	I
Not hell though hell's black jaws in sunder part	G
And breathe blue fire could more assault his heart	G
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Confus'd and struck with silence at the deed	G
He flies but trembling fails to fly with speed	G
His steps the youth pursues the country lay	G
Perplex'd with roads a servant show'd the way	G
A river cross'd the path the passage o'er	E2
Was nice to find the servant trod before	J
Long arms of oak an open bridge supplied	G
And deep the waves beneath the bending glide	G
The youth who seem'd to watch a time to sin	F2
Approach'd the careless guide and thrust him in	F2
Plunging he falls and rising lifts his head	G
Then flashing turns and sinks among the dead	G
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Wild sparkling rage inflames the father's eyes	R
He bursts the bands of fear and madly cries	R
quot Detested wretch quot but scarce his speech began	V
When the strange partner seem'd no longer man	V
His youthful face grew more serenely sweet	G
His robe turn'd white and flow'd upon his feet	G
Fair rounds of radiant points inves	R

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