In a shady Valley, near a running Water. William Shenstone 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. T131163 K104099.004 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] pp. 346-347. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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II . In a shady Valley , near a running Water . O ! Let me haunt this peaceful shade ; Nor let ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bow'r , That shun her paths , and slight her pow'r . Hither the plaintive halcyon flies From social meads and open skies ; Pleas'd , by this rill , her course to steer , And hide her saphire plumage here . The trout , bedropt with crimson stains , Forsakes the river's proud domains ; Forsakes the sun's unwelcome gleam , To lurk within this humble stream . And sure I heard the Naiad say , " Flow , flow , my stream ! this devious way ; " Tho' lovely soft thy murmurs are , " Thy waters , lovely cool and fair ! " Flow , gentle stream ! nor let the vain " Thy small unsully'd stores disdain : " Nor let the pensive sage repine , " Whose latent course resembles thine . "