The Suffolk Garland Author:James Ford Subtitle: Or, a Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads, Sonnets, and Elegies, Legendary and Romantic, Historical and Descriptive, Relative to That County; and Illustrative of Its Scenery, Places, Biography, Manners, Habits and Customs General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: John Raw Subjec... more »ts: English literature Suffolk (England) Poetry of places English poetry History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Or list the bugle's jocund sound, That cheers the deeper throated hound, Who tracks, unfoil'd, his princely prey, And holds the antler'd stag at bay ? O Muse! 'tis thine, with vivid sheen, To heighten ev'ry present scene, And shadow those with richer grace, That memory and fancy trace: Then oft, beneath the linden tree, In raptur'd visions visit me; And ever let thy magic pow'r With roses strew my rustic bow'r. ONEHOUSE. 1782. Thefollowing lines are a translation from a Poem, written in the reign of James the I. entitled " jEde Solitaries," by the Rev. Charles Davy, who says in one of his Letters, dated June 20, 1782 " I shall apply " them to the Spot where it has pleased the divine Pro- " vidence to place me; and the spirit of the author would "forgive it, could he know with how much propriety " they are adapted to this situation, in which I hope " to close the evening of my life." This Gentleman was educated at Cains College, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of B. A. 1742, and M. A. 1748. He was present...« less