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TARS COLLEGE

OV 97 1906

LIBRARY

Sohien fernes

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AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK.

Ὑπ ̓ αἰγιόχοιο Διός περικαλλέϊ φηγῷ.

The air that floated by me seemed to say,
'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.'
And so I did.

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,

Beguiling harmlessly the listless hours.

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;
Love's Sudden Growth, p. 135.

VOL. IV.

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