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The morn dispensed a dubious light	A
A sudden mist had stolen from sight	A
Each pleasing vale and hill	B
When Damon left his humble bowers	C
To guard his flocks to fence his flowers	C
Or check his wandering rill	B
	-
Though school'd from Fortune's paths to fly	D
The swain beneath each lowering sky	D
Would oft his fate bemoan	E
That he in sylvan shades forlorn	F
Must waste his cheerless even and morn	F
Nor praised nor loved nor known	E
	-
No friend to Fame's obstreperous noise	G
Yet to the whispers of her voice	H
Soft murmuring not a foe	I
The pleasures he through choice declined	J
When gloomy fogs depress'd his mind	J
It grieved him to forego	I
	-
Grieved him to lurk the lakes beside	K
Where coots in rushy dingles hide	K
And moorcocks shun the day	L
While caitiff bitterns undismay'd	L
Remark the swain's familiar shade	L
And scorn to quit their prey	L
	-
But see the radiant sun once more	M
The brightening face of heaven restore	M
And raise the doubtful dawn	N
And more to gild his rural sphere	O
At once the brightest train appear	O
That ever trod the lawn	N
	-
Amazement chill'd the shepherd's frame	P
To think Bridgewater's honour'd name	P
Should grace his rustic cell	Q
That she on all whose motions wait	L
Distinction titles rank and state	L
Should rove where shepherds dwell	Q
	-
But true it is the generous mind	L
By candour sway'd by taste refined	L
Will nought but vice disdain	R
Nor will the breast where fancy glows	S
Deem every flower a weed that blows	S
Amid the desert plain	R
	-
Beseems it such with honour crown'd	L
To deal its lucid beams around	L
Nor equal meed receive	T
At most such garlands from the field	L
As cowslips pinks and pansies yield	L
And rural hands can weave	T
	-
Yet strive ye shepherds strive to find	L
And weave the fairest of the kind	L
The prime of all the spring	U
If haply thus you lovely fair	V
May round her temples deign to wear	V
The trivial wreaths you bring	U
	-
O how the peaceful halcyons play'd	L
Where'er the conscious lake betray'd	L
Athena's placid mien	W
How did the sprightlier linnets throng	X
Where Paphia's charms required the song	X
'Mid hazel copses green	W
	-
Lo Dartmouth on those banks reclined	L
While busy Fancy calls to mind	L
The glories of his line	Y
Methinks my cottage rears its head	L
The ruin'd walls of yonder shed	L
As through enchantment shine	Y
	-
But who the nymph that guides their way	L
Could ever nymph descend to stray	L
From Hagley's famed retreat	L
Else by the blooming features fair	V
The faultless make the matchless air	V
'Twere Cynthia's form complete	L
	-
So would some tuberose delight	L
That struck the pilgrim's wondering sight	L
'Mid lonely deserts drear	V
All as at eve the sovereign flower	V
Dispenses round its balmy power	V
And crowns the fragrant year	V
	-
Ah now no more the shepherd cried	L
Must I Ambition's charms deride	L
Her subtle force disown	E
No more of Fauns or Fairies dream	Z
While Fancy near each crystal stream	Z
Shall paint these forms alone	E
	-
By low brow'd rock or pathless mead	L
I deem'd that splendour ne'er should lead	L
My dazzled eyes astray	V
But who alas will dare contend	L
If beauty add or merit blend	L
Its more illustrious ray	V
	-
Nor is it long O plaintive swain	R
Since Guernsey saw without disdain	R
Where hid in woodlands green	W
The partner of his early days	A2
And once the rival of his praise	A2
Had stolen through life unseen	W
	-
Scarce faded is the vernal flower	V
Since Stamford left his honour'd bower	V
To smile familiar here	V
O form'd by Nature to disclose	S
How fair that courtesy which flows	S
From social warmth sincere	V
	-
Nor yet have many moons decay'd	L
Since Pollio sought this lonely shade	L
Admired this rural maze	A2
The noblest breast that Virtue fires	C
The Graces love the Muse inspires	B2
Might pant for Pollio's praise	A2
	-
Say Thomson here was known to rest	L
For him you vernal seat I drest	L
Ah never to return	C2
In place of wit and melting strains	D2
And social mirth it now remains	D2
To weep beside his urn	C2
	-
Come then my Lelius come once more	V
And fringe the melancholy shore	V
With roses and with bays	A2
While I each wayward Fate accuse	E2
That envied his impartial Muse	E2
To sing your early praise	A2
	-
While Philo to whose favour'd sight	L
Antiquity with full delight	L
Her inmost wealth displays	A2
Beneath yon ruin's moulder'd wall	F2
Shall muse and with his friends recall	F2
The pomp of ancient days	A2
	-
Here too shall Conway's name appear	V
He praised the stream so lovely clear	V
That shone the reeds among	G2
Yet clearness could it not disclose	S
To match the rhetoric that flows	S
From Conway's polish'd tongue	G2
	-
Even Pitt whose fervent periods roll	H2
Resistless through the kindling soul	H2
Of senates councils kings	I2
Though form'd for courts vouchsafed to rove	J2
Inglorious through the shepherd's grove	J2
And ope his bashful springs	I2
	-
But what can courts discover more	V
Than these rude haunts have seen before	V
Each fount and shady tree	V
Have not these trees and fountains seen	W
The pride of courts the winning mien	W
Of peerless Aylesbury	V
	-
And Grenville she whose radiant eyes	K2
Have mark'd by slow gradation rise	K2
The princely piles of Stowe	I
Yet praised these unembellish'd woods	L2
And smiled to see the babbling floods	M2
Through self worn mazes flow	I
	-
Say Dartmouth who your banks admired	L
Again beneath your caves retired	L
Shall grace the pensive shade	L
With all the bloom with all the truth	N2
With all the sprightliness of youth	N2
By cool reflection sway'd	L
	-
Brave yet humane shall Smith appear	V
Ye sailors though his name be dear	V
Think him not yours alone	E
Grant him in other spheres to charm	O2
The shepherds' breasts though mild are warm	P2
And ours are all his own	E
	-
O Lyttleton my honour'd guest	L
Could I describe thy generous breast	L
Thy firm yet polish'd mind	L
How public love adorns thy name	P
How Fortune too conspires with Fame	P
The song should please mankind	L

William Shenstone

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