5 10 15 20 When all at once I saw a crowd, Continuous as the stars that shine The waves beside them danced, but they In such a jocund company; I gazed and gazed, — but little thought For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, CORONACH "My Heart Leaps Up" My heart leaps up when I behold So was it when my life began; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; 27 5 But the voice of the weeper Waft the leaves that are scarest, Fleet foot on the correi, How sound is thy slumber! 29 THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET To reflect back her blushes, Or give sigh for sigh! I'll not leave thee, thou lone one! To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them. Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, When thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. So soon may I follow, When friendships decay, And from Love's shining circle When true hearts lie withered, Oh! who would inhabit This bleak world alone? 5 10 LEIGH HUNT ENGLAND, 1784-1859 The Grasshopper and Cricket Green little vaulter in the sunny grass, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; With those who think the candles come too soon, One to the fields, the other to the hearth, Both have your sunshine; both, though small, are strong At your clear hearts; and both seem given to earth 10 To sing in thoughtful ears their natural song, — In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. JOHN KEATS ENGLAND, 1795-1821 On the Grasshopper and Cricket The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, 15 From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. With his delights; for, when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. 20 The poetry of earth is ceasing never: |