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Rh ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW ON THE HILL, 1806.

Oh! mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos. —.

1.

scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection

Embitters the present, compar'd with the past;

Where science first dawn'd on the powers of reflection,

And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last;

2.

Where fancy, yet, joys to retrace the resemblance

Of comrades, in friendship and mischief allied;

How welcome to me your ne'er fading remembrance,

Which rests in the bosom, though hope is deny'd!

3.

Again I revisit the hills where we sported,

The streams where we swam, and the fields where we fought;