قراءة كتاب The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home"
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اللغة: English
The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home"
الصفحة رقم: 10
how were their bosoms delighted and cheer’d,
When before them a perfect Elysium appear’d!
Reluctant they left it, again to explore,
Unconscious what happiness yet was in store:
But the country they travers’d was smiling and gay,
While the Sun, brightly shining, illumin’d their way;
And we all know how cheerful, how sweet is the scene,
When Nature unfolds her new livery of green.
The Birds carol’d round them, the Butterfly play’d,
And the soft vernal breeze kindly lent them its aid.
And they shortly forgot both their sorrow and pain.
A path strew’d with flowers, they gaily pursued,
And, in fancy, their long-sought Incognita view’d;
Till, all their cares over, in Dorset5 they found her
And, plucking a wreath of green Bay-leaves, they crown’d her.
Now, what more remains of our Peacock to say,
But that, homeward, triumphant, he wing’d back his way,
Proclaim’d his success to the whole Biped Nation,
And proudly accepted their congratulation.
1. The Song of “Pretty, pretty Poll,” in the Beggar’s Opera.
2. Vide “The Peacock at Home.”
3. The Hen Harrier—a bird of prey, of the Hawk tribe.
4. A Moss-cover’d Root-house, in the Plantation at Mendip Lodge—the charming seat of the Rev. Dr. Whalley.
5. Mrs. Dorset was the Authoress of “The Peacock at Home.”
H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London.
