1. OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
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The little hedge-row birds,
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That peck along the road, regard him not.
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He travels on, and in his face, his step,
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His gait, is one expression; every limb,
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His look and bending figure, all bespeak
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A man who does not move with pain, but moves
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With thought--He is insensibly subdued
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To settled quiet: he is one by whom
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All effort seems forgotten, one to whom
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Long patience has such mild composure given,
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That patience now doth seem a thing, of which
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He hath no need. He is by nature led
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To peace so perfect, that the young behold
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With envy, what the old man hardly feels.
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--I asked him whither he was bound, and what
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The object of his journey; he replied
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"Sir! I am going many miles to take
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"A last leave of my son, a mariner,
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"Who from a sea-fight has been brought to Falmouth,
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