Begaired (0) is the sapphire pend (p) The ample heaven, of fabric sure, The crystal and the silver, pure The time so tranquil is and clear, All trees and simples, great and small, That balmy leaf do bear, Than they were painted on a wall, No more they move or steir. (r) The rivers fresh, the callour (s) streams, O'er rocks can swiftly rin, (t) The water clear like crystal beams, And makes a pleasant din. Calm is the deep and purple sea, Yea, smoother than the sand; The waves, that woltering (u) wont to be, (0) Drest out. (r) Stir. (p) Arch. (s) Cool. (t) Run. (q) Streaks. So silent is the cessile air, That every cry and call, The hills and dales, and forests fair, The clogged busy humming bees, The sun most like a speedy post The beauty of our heavenly host The breathless flocks draw to the shade The startling nolt, (a) as they were mad, The herds beneath some leafy trees, Amidst the flow'rs they lie; The stable ships upon the seas Tend up their sails to dry. The rayons dure (b) descending down, In city, nor in burrough town, (x) By the older writers little attention is paid in giving plural nouns a plural verb. (b) Hard or keen rays. (x) Freshness._(a) Oxen. (c) Fire. The labourers that timely rose, All weary, faint, and weak, For heat down to their houses goes, The callour (d) wine in cave is sought, With gilded eyes and open wings, The cock his courage shows; With claps of joy his breast he dings, (g) And twenty times he crows. The dove with whistling wings so blue, The winds can fast collect, Now noon is gone-gone is midday, The sun descends down west away, * Great is the calm, for every where The wind is setting down, The reek (h) throws up right in the air, (d) Cool. (e) Burning. (g) Beats. (f) Oil, (h) Smoke. The mavis and the philomeen, (i) The cushats (k) on the branches green, The glomin (m) comes, the day is spent, And painted is the occident With purple sanguine bright. * What pleasure then to walk and see, Endlang (n) a river clear, The perfect form of every tree Within the deep appear. The salmon out of cruives (0) and creels, (p) Uphailed into scouts ; (g) The bells and circles on the weills, (r) Through leaping of the trouts. O sure it were a seemly thing, While all is still and calm, The praise of God to play and sing With trumpet and with shalm. Through all the land great is the gild (s) Of rustic folks that cry; (i) Thrush and nightingale. (k) Wood-pigeons. (n) Along. (r) Wells. (4) A very expressive word for the note of the cushat, or wood-pigeon. (m) Evening. (0) Places for confining fish, generally placed in the bed of a river. (p) Baskets. (q) Small boats or yawls. (s) Throng. Of bleating sheep, fra they be fill'd, All labourers draw hame at even, Thanks to the gracious God of Heaven, SHAKSPEARE. BORN 1564-DIED 1616. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, the bard of England, was born at Stratford on Avon on St George's day (23d April), 1564, and died on his birth-day in 1616, at the same place. DIRGE. (In "Cymbeline.") FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Fear no more the frown o' the great, (t) Who. |