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ODE III.
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Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers amongWanders the hoary Thames alongHis silver-winding way:[N 1] 10
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!Ah, fields belov'd in vain!Where once my careless childhood stray'd,A stranger yet to pain!I feel the gales that from ye blow[N 2] 15A momentary bliss bestow,As waving fresh their gladsome wing,My weary soul they seem to soothe,And, redolent of joy and youth,[N 3]To breathe a second spring. 20
Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen[N 4]

Notes

    V. 5."and now to where
    Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow."
    Thoms. Sum, 1412. W.

  1. ↑ V. 10. "The vale of Thames fair-winding up." Thoms. Sum. 1417. Fenton in his Ode to Lord Gower, which was praised by Pope and Akenside, had these two lines, iii. 1:
    "Or if invok'd where Thames's fruitful tidesSlow thro' the vale in silver volumes play."
    Spenser. vol. v. p. 87: "Silver-streaming Thames."
  2. ↑ V. 15. "L'Aura gentil che rasserena i poggi
    Destando i fior per questo ombroso bosco
    Al soavesuo spirto riconosco,"Petrarca, Son. clxi.
  3. ↑ V. 19. And bees their honey redolent of spring," Dryden's Fable on the Pythag. System. Gray.—"And every field is redolent of spring," L. Welsted's Poems, p. 23. It appears also in the Memoirs of Europe towards the Close of the Eighth Century, by Mrs. Manly, 1716, vol. ii. p. 67: "The lovely Endimion, redolent of youth." See Todd, in a note to Sams. Agonist. (Milton, vol. iv. p. 410).
  4. ↑ V. 21. This invocation is taken from Green's Grotto: see Dodsley. Col. vol. v. p. 159.
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