...vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! 1 feel the gales that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow ; As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast...

...gales that from them blow A momentary bliss bestow, • As, redolent of joy and youth, The weary sou I they seem to sooth, And redolent of joy and youth To breathe a second spring." But to no one present at the fete was the scene fraught with more withering remembrances than to Mrs....

...support of youth, like the poet who revisits the scenes of his early life : — " I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As waving...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second Spring."* But, Gentlemen, no delight or gratification could recommend to me an Institution in which such privileges...

...support of youth, like the poet who revisits the scenes of his early life :— " I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As waving...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second Spring."* But, Gentlemen, no delight or gratification could recommend to me an Institution in which such privileges...

...The lover of the muses may truly say, 1 feel the gales ihat round ye blow A momentary bliss bustow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth To breathe a second spring. The contrast, indeed, is somewhat...

..."Where once my careless childhood etray'd, '•A stranger yet to pain ! "I feel the gales that from you blow "A momentary bliss bestow ; •'As, waving fresh...redolent of joy and youth, "To breathe a second spring." CRAY. These tender feelings, which exist in a more or less degree in every bosom, afford a melancholy...

...impression, the co-inherence of the brightness, the motion, and the line of motion. 2 i 10 I lines 21-30 Say, Father THAMES, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Desporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With...

...argument. One is taken from mid-eighteenth-century poetry; the other is taken from a poem by Wordsworth. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Thomas Gray, Ode...

...away a summer's afternoon. The picture is accompanied by Gray's poetic lines addressed to the river: Say Father Thames for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margin green, The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arms thy...

...belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain? I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. His momentary bliss and nostalgic look at the Eton schoolboys collapse in the face of adult reality,...