Excerpt from The Birth-Day: A Poem, in Three Parts; To Which Are Added, Occasional Verses As way-worn Pilgrim on the last hill top Lingers awhile, and, leaning on his staff, Looks back upon the pleasant plain o'erpast, Retracing far with retrospective eye The course of every little glancing stream, And winding valley path, late hurried o'er Perchance, with careless unobservant eye, F ix'd on some distant point, of fairer promise As with long pause the highest summit gained, (dividing, like the Tyrolean ridge, Summer from ...
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Excerpt from The Birth-Day: A Poem, in Three Parts; To Which Are Added, Occasional Verses As way-worn Pilgrim on the last hill top Lingers awhile, and, leaning on his staff, Looks back upon the pleasant plain o'erpast, Retracing far with retrospective eye The course of every little glancing stream, And winding valley path, late hurried o'er Perchance, with careless unobservant eye, F ix'd on some distant point, of fairer promise As with long pause the highest summit gained, (dividing, like the Tyrolean ridge, Summer from Winter) that wayfaring Man Leans on his staff, and looks a long farewell To all the lovely land: So linger I (life's lonely Pilgrim on the last hill top, With thoughtful, tender, retrospective gaze, Ere turning, down the deep descent I go, Of the cold shadowy side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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