The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere th…

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers sh…

There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain, So many clappers going without bells, That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless ch…

When dark clouds full with new waters are thundering repeatedly, the ruttish wild elephants respond by trumpeting, on the premise that it is the she-elephant's…