Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...change; Ah, woe is me! we never are content: --There's earthly joy forearthlyhearts;--and strange It is, that we are with dejection pent In our own wishes.--Beauty ne'er was sent To make us wretched, --and yet wise men say, This life is all of pain, --that we are bent With misery, as with old age, for aye; But we our own dark sorrows make, ah, well a day! LXXII. The Fay-queen stood before the mortal youth, With smiles of dangerous and deep tenderness; Yet in her eyes there something was of ruth, A sweet embalming of the boy's distress: --She meekly smil'd, and then she did address With birdlike voice his young enchanted ear;--Such magic tones faintly our senses bless About the mellow May-time of the year, When happy hearts, like trees, all blossoming appear. LXXIII. " Enchanted boy! Thy mind hath won for thee " Sights all unearthly and most beautiful. " No mortal eye on forms of faery " Hath ever glanc'd before: --the spirit dull " Ne'er dreams of us;--but thou shalt never cull " A cowslip, but a fairy shall be there; " Let what thou see'st to-night thy nature lull " Into contentment, --come at eve, and share " Th' enjoyments of my elves which are for ever fair." LXXIV. " Seek not the world. The magic of thy mind " Was wrought in innocence, and will be lost " In that pernicious storehouse of mankind, " Where hearts, in calms, are broken, aye--or tost " Unfriended in the storms. Be it thy boast " To live but simply happy: --light and joy " And youth are thine with us, --but at thy cost " Close with the poisonous world; it will destroy " Mirth, fire, and hope, and feeling, magic boy! LXXV. " But time it is to break the revels up, " And time it...