"The Quiet Life": Certain Verses by Various Hands

CERTAIN VERSES BY VARIOUS HANDS: the Motive set forth in a PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE by AUSTIN DOBSON; the whole adorned with numerous Drawings by EDWIN A. ABBEY & ALFRED PARSONS
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VEN as one in city pent. Dazed with the stir and din of town, Drums on the pane in discontent, And sees the dreary rain come down, Yet, through the dimmed and dripping glass, Beholds, in fancy, visions pass,

Of Spring that breaks with all her leaves, Of birds that build in thatch and eaves, Of woodlands where the throstle calls, Of girls that gather cowslip balls,