That have roll’d with your father’s free blood:
Oh! leave on the graves of the mighty
Proud marks where their children have stood!
SONGS FOR SUMMER HOURS.
AND I TOO IN ARCADIA.
[A celebrated picture of Poussin represents a band of shepherd-youths and maidens suddenly checked in their wanderings, and affected with various emotions, by the sight of a tomb which bears this inscription—“Et in Arcadia ego.”]
They have wander’d in their glee
With the butterfly and bee;
They have climb’d o’er heathery swells,
They have wound through forest dells;