...Hat-ting's cottag'd vale, Shall learn the sad repeated tale, And bid her shepherds weep. F 2 ODE TO EVENING. IF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope,...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales, 0 Nymph reserv'd ! while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts. With...

...TO EVENING. BY COLLINS. JF a\ight of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs,...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing>...

...brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; Nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd sun ts in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : ow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat r ith short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing;...

...thy own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd sun in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : ow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat illi short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing;...

...the West! ODE IX. TO EVENING. IF aught of oaten stop or past'ral song May hope, chaste Eve! to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs...tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhaag his wavy bed ; Now air is husli'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits...

...TF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral •*• May hope, O pensive Eve, to sool Like thy own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserv'd, while now the bri| Sits in yon western tent, whose clou With brede ethereal wove, O'erhaug his wavy bed : Now air...

...of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, O pensive Eve, to sooth thine ear, Like thy own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O Nymph reserv'd,...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing;...

...her shepherds «сер. BOO ' SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. § 154. Ode to Evening. COLLINS. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest Thy springs, and dying gales; Like thy own solemn springs, [ear, 0 nymph resen'd,...

...versification. The sounds steal slowly over the ear, like the gradual coming on of evening itself: " If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales, O nymph reserv'd,...

...versification. The sounds steal slowly over the ear, like the gradual coming on of evening itself: " If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales, O nymph reserv'cl,...