COUNTRY RAMBLES IN ENGLAND; OR JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST; WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS,
Reading edition
BY
THE AUTHOR OF “RURAL HOURS.”
——“Plants, trees, and stones, we note,
Birds, insects, beasts, and many rural things.”
BUFFALO:
PUBLISHED BY PHINNEY & CO.
1853.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
PHINNEY & CO.
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Northern District of
New York.
Go forth, my little bark, again, and risk
Once more thy fragile form upon the world’s
Unsteady surge. Rude gales and currents may
Be found to meet thee on thy way, and check
Thy progress to a ready mart: yet steer,
If haply thou canst, thy course—light is
Thy freight, nor rare; and few I deem’d would prize
Such merchandise as thine, nor willing aid
Thee foundering in the wave; but thou hast sail’d
In tranquil seas—warm, sunny gleams have cheer’d
Thee on; and friends—kind friends!—were seen,
Who slighted not thy ware, all rustic as
It was. Yet bear thee steady on thy course;
And chance some wandering trafficker may come
To seek a sample of thy stores, and find
The lading to its invoice true.
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