Where'er the youth is laid: That sacred spot the village hind Blest youth, regardful of thy doom, With shadowy trophies crown'd; The warlike dead of every age, Shall leave their sainted rest; VARIATIONS. Ver. 19. E'en now regardful of his doom And calls her heroes round. 19. O'er him, whose doom thy virtues grieve, And bend the pensive head; And, fallen to save his injured land, Shall point his lonely bed. 15 20 25 30 Old Edward's sons, unknown to yield, And gaze with fix'd delight; But lo, where, sunk in deep despair, Her matted tresses madly spread, Ne'er shall she leave that lowly ground Proclaim her reign restored : Till William seek the sad retreat, If, weak to soothe so soft a heart, If yet, in Sorrow's distant eye, VARIATIONS. Ver. 31. Old Edward's sons, untaught to yield, 49. If, drawn by all a lover's art, 35 40 45 50 Where'er from time thou court'st relief, Her gentlest promise keep; And bid her shepherds weep. 55 60 Harting, a village adjoining the parish of Trotton, and about two miles distant from it. ODE TO EVENING. Ir aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: 4 Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat 9 VARIATIONS. Ver. 2. May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear. 3. Like thy own solemn springs, 9. While air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, To breathe some soften'd strain, 15 Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved return! For when thy folding-star arising shows 20 And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, 25 And sheds the freshening dew, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car. Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene; Or find some ruin, 'midst its dreary dells, $0 VARIATIONS. Ver. 24. Who slept in flowers the day, 29. Then lead, calm votress, where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath, or some time-hallow'd pile, E |