 | Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...our thoughts The face which rural solitude might wear To the unenlightened swains of pagan Greece. - In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched...music lulled his indolent repose: And, in some fit of wearines, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than... | |
 | 1835 - 780 pages
...clime the lonely herdsman, st retch 'd On the soft grass through half a summer's any, With music lull'd his indolent repose ; And in some fit of weariness,...sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, bis fancy fetch 'd. Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth who touched a golden... | |
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In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter... 
