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hus bending o'er the vessel's laving side,To gaze on Dian's wave-reflected sphere,[el]The Soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride,[em]And flies unconscious o'er each backward year;None are so desolate but something dear,[en]Dearer than self, possesses or possessedA thought, and claims the homage of a tear;A flashing pang! of which the weary breastWould still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV.[eo][129] To sit on rocks--to muse o'er flood and fell--To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,Where things that own not Man's dominion dwell,And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been;To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,With the wild flock that never needs a fold;Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;[ep]This is not Solitude--'tis but to holdConverse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
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