TO A FRIEND. William Lisle Bowles Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street... 1855 p. 17.

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TO A FRIEND . Go , then , and join the murmuring city's throng ! Me thou dost leave to solitude and tears ; To busy phantasies , and boding fears , Lest ill betide thee ; but 'twill not be long Ere the hard season shall be past ; till then Live happy ; sometimes the forsaken shade Remembering , and these trees now left to fade ; Nor , ' mid the busy scenes and hum of men , Wilt thou my cares forget : in heaviness To me the hours shall roll , weary and slow , Till mournful autumn past , and all the snow Of winter pale , the glad hour I shall bless That shall restore thee from the crowd again , To the green hamlet on the peaceful plain . 1792.