There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.
Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength.
King Richard III., Act v. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
RURAL LIFE.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Odyssey, Bk. XIV. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
But on and up, where Nature's heart
Beats strong amid the hills.
Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube. R.M. MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON.
They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible of pity or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought?
The Task, Bk. III. W. COWPER.
God made the country, and man made the town;
What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts
That can alone make sweet the bitter draught
That life holds out to all, should most abound
And least be threatened in the fields and groves.
The Task, Bk. I.: The Sofa. W. COWPER.
Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a month in town.
Summer. C.G. ROSSETTI.
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.
The Task, Bk. I. W. COWPER.
At eve the ploughman leaves the task of day
And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way:
And the big-uddered cows with patience stand,
And wait the strokings of the damsel's hand.
Rural Sport. J. GAY.