Though here I languish to be free;—
Birds that have breathed my country’s air,
Tell ye my country’s woes to me?”
NATURE.
FROM THE FRENCH OF BERANGER.
How wondrous Nature’s plan appears,
In pleasures fruitful as in woes!
The world immersed in hopeless tears,
An ample meed of suffering knows.
But Beauty binds us to her feet,