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[TRANSLATION] OF A LATIN POEM

BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER.

1 Oh thou, that prattling on thy pebbled way
2 Through my paternal vale dost stray,
3 Working thy shallow passage to the sea!
4 Oh, stream, thou speedest on
5 The same as many seasons gone;
6 But not, alas, to me
7 Remain the feelings that beguiled
8 My early road, when, careless and content,
9 (Losing the hours in pastimes innocent)
10 Upon thy banks I strayed a playful child;
11 Whether the pebbles that thy margin strew,
12 Collecting, heedlessly I threw;
13 Or loved in thy translucent wave
14 My tender shrinking feet to lave;
15 Or else ensnared your little fry,
16 And thought how wondrous skilled was I!
17 So passed my boyish days, unknown to pain,
18 Days that will ne'er return again.
19 It seems but yesterday
20 I was a child, to-morrow to be gray!
21 So years succeeding years steal silently away.
22 Not fleeter thy own current, hurrying thee,
23 Rolls down to the great sea.
24 Thither oh carry these sad thoughts; the deep
25 Bury them! thou, meantime, thy tenor keep,
26 And winding through the green-wood, cheer,
27 As erst, my native, peaceful pastures here. [Page 101]

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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, pp. 100-101.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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