To competence and ease:—to him it offered[47]
Attractions manifold;—and this he chose.
—His Parents on the enterprise bestowed[48]
Their farewell benediction, but with hearts
Foreboding evil. From his native hills
He wandered far; much did he see of men,[AP]
Their manners, their enjoyments, and pursuits,
Their passions and their feelings; chiefly those
Essential and eternal in the heart,
That,[49] 'mid the simpler forms of rural life,