Br4048.2 HARVARD COLLEGE NOV 27 1006 LIBRARY ལ་བ་ག་་་ (The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved) AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK. Ὑπ ̓ αἰγιόχοιο Διός περικαλλέϊ φηγῷ. The air that floated by me seemed to say, Iliad, E' 693. KEATS'S Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke, Sept. 1816. Pleraque eorum quæ retuli, quæque referam, parva forsitan et levia memoratu videri, non nescius sum. TACIT. Annal. iv. c. 32. Thus I entertain The antiquarian humour, and am pleased To skim along the surfaces of things, WORDSWORTH's Excursion, p. 92. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. SIR T. BROWNE'S Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial, c. v. vol. iii. 491. Ed. Wilkins. A tree on which the host of dreams Low murmur mystic things. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON's Poems; VOL. III. B |