Myself by my companion, self-compelled They were written in 1796. Page 129, line 21. So thro' the vales of Loire the bee-hives glide, An allusion to the floating bee-house, which is seen in some parts of France and Piedmont. Page 130, line 6. Caught thro' St. James's groves at blush of day After line 6, in the MS. Groves that Belinda's star illumines still, Page 131, line 8. And, with the swallow, wings the year away! It was the boast of Lucullus that he changed his climate with the birds of passage. How often must he have felt the truth here inculcated, that the master of many houses has no home ? I. As Autumn; thro' Provence had ceased vintage, and the vintage-feast. sun had set behind the hill, moon was up, and all was still, 1 from the Convent's neighbouring tower clock had tolled the midnight-hour, ten Jacqueline came forth alone, e starts, and what has caught her eye ? e stops, she pants; with lips apart e listens to her beating heart! ren, thro' the scanty orchard stealing, he clustering boughs her track concealing, She flies, nor casts a thought behind, Flies from her home, the humble sphere Of all her joys and sorrows here, Up rose St. Pierre, when morning shone; By Condé at Rocroy he stood; |