...appropriate address from Cowper, who bad a keen sense of the beautiful in such objects : — "Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; ami the thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee,...

...me still is the wild daisied green, Where thy branches are waving, my own beechen-trec. " Thou wert a. bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And...

...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth...

...the use of antiquated and vulgar phrases. The following are about the best lines which it contains. " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And...

...the use of antiquated and vulgar phrases. The following are about the best lines which it contains. " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievish joy Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin' d The auburn nut that held ihee, swallowing down...

...aristocratic kinsmen " in the metropolis, thereby getting to the knowledge of the poet. But all this is mere guesswork, and, at any rate, casual acquaintance...fine structure, and contained many monuments of the Yelvertons. It was restored in a loving spirit by the late Marquess of Northampton, and the old vicarage...

...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And...

...in which, descanting on its birth, growth, maturity, and decay, he says: — " It was once a bauble; a cup and ball Which babes might play with; and the...jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee ; swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs, And all thy...

...which, descanting on its birth, growth, maturity, and decay, he says : — " It was once a bauble ; a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with case might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee ; swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude...

...more decays." The yew, however, has long been supposed to exceed the oak in longevity. " Thou wert a bauble once— a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay. Cowper, always exquisitely tended aud natural, writes a beautiful little biography Thy Jet Ci08c.folded...