Earnest alike, let both from hill to hill

Range;[228] if it please them, speed from clime to clime;

The mind is full—and free from pain their pastime."[229]

"Then," said I, interposing, "One is near,

Who cannot but possess in your esteem

Place worthier still of envy. May I name,

Without offence, that fair-faced cottage-boy?

Dame Nature's pupil of the lowest form,

Youngest apprentice in the school of art!

Him, as we entered from the open glen,