Rising from their dark pile, an added height
By indistinctness given—Then to decree
The grateful thoughts to God, ere they unfold 10
To friendship or the Muse, or seek with glee
Wisdom’s rich page. O hours more worth than gold,
By whose blest use we lengthen life, and, free
From drear decays of age, outlive the old!
Anna Seward.
CLXXVII
THE THRUSH’S NEST.
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush,