ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782. 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. 77.

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ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782. The spring shall visit thee again , Itchin ! and yonder ancient fane , St Croix . That casts its shadow on thy breast , As if , by many winters beat , The blooming season it would greet , With many a straggling wild-flower shall be dressed . But I , amid the youthful train That stray at evening by thy side , No longer shall a guest remain , To mark the spring's reviving pride . I go not unrejoicing ; but who knows , When I have shared , O world ! thy common woes , Returning I may drop some natural tears ; As these same fields I look around , And hear from yonder dome The Cathedral . the slow bell sound , And think upon the joys that crowned my stripling years !