...object had been, — To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, Slowly to trace the desert's winding scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been — which latter circumstance, by the way, however poetic, we should at this moment gladly have excused....

...Jesus spake, well might his language be, ' Suffer these little ones to come to me !' Rogers. SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see,...

...blue and cloudless sky, delighting in my loneliness, and in the glorious silent majesty of nature— " To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the...solitude, 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled." I believe I ought here rather to have quoted Wordsworth than...

...epitaphs in the churchyard of Kildrummy, which are here annexed. To roam o'er wilds ; to sit by floods or fell ; To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And human foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To range the pathless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock...

...of him, by whom the beautiful varieties of nature were never unobserved, nor unrecorded : — To sit rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene Where things which own not man's dominion dwell. And human foot hath ne'er, or rarely been : To climb the craggy...

...sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, Slowly to trace the forest's shady scene, Where thing« that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely bren ; Т*о climb the trackless mountain all unseen, \Viib the wild flock that never needs a fold...

...tlas hi ng pang! of which the weary breast Would sull, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly irate the forest's sh.idy ficen?, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath...

...replied the Mourner, "She who broke My honds, shall never wear a stranger'* joke." SOLITUDE. SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores uuroll'd. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see,...

...rest, till many a flower Shew Flora's triumph o'er the falling tower." CftABBB. ORDER VII. FUNGI. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...climb the trackless mountain all unseen. With the wild-flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude...

...mountains loved to scan, And from the crest of Alps peruse the mighty plan. 'Tis ecstasy "to brood o'er flood and fell," " To slowly trace the forest's...the trackless mountain all unseen, -With the wild flocks that never need a fold; Alone o'er steeps, and foaming falls to lean; — This is not solitude...