Caroline Bowles Southey by Virginia Blain

Author:Virginia Blain [Blain, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9780429860515
Google: TIyADwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-15T03:45:30+00:00

Those happy evenings! ay, ‘twas there I left –

The landscape finished, young invention sought     420

(Not often baffled) springs of fresh delight,

And found them frequent, Goldsmith, in thy work

‘Of Animated Nature’ – precious book!

Illustrated with pictures, that to me

Rivalled at least the subjects they adorned –     425

Then with sharp scissors armed (a jealous loan

With many a solemn charge conceded slow),

And fair unwrinkled paper, soon began

The imitative labour: and anon

Wide o’er the table ranged a motley herd,     430

A heterogeneous multitude, before

Never assembled thus, since that old time

When Noah to the finished ark called in

Of every species the allotted pair.

There first the unwieldy elephant advanced,     435

Majestic beast! on whose stupendous bulk

Rajah or Sultan might have sat sublime;

Next in the line of march (ill-mated pair!)

With branching antlers, and slight flexile limbs,

Comes on the graceful dweller of the north;     440

He whose winged swiftness, like an arrow’s flight,

Wafts the rude sledge, that bears o’er Lapland snows

The stinted native of those cheerless plains.

The Arab’s faithful servant follows next,

The patient camel, useful to the last –     445

Who, when he sinks upon the burning sand

Beneath his burthen, slakes his master’s thirst

(Slain for its sake) with the long-hoarded draught.

Then came the warrior bison, strong ally

Of his rude lord, grim guardian of his herds,     450

And sharer of his cabin comforts few.

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