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,