Calendar: 1851-1852 Page 354

358 THE SCHOOL While the wanton Zephyr sings And in the vale perfumes his wings While the waters murmur deep While the shepherd charms his sheep While the birds unbounded fly And with music fill the sky Now e'en now my joys run high Be full ye courts be great who will Search for peace with all your skill Open wide the lofty door Seek her on the marble floor In vain ye search she is not thete In vain ye search the domes of Care Grass and flower Quiet treads On the meads and mountain heads Along with Pleasure close allied Ever by each other's side And often by the murmuring rill Hears the thrush while all is still Within the groves of Grongar Hill Into Latin Prose As for the two objections that forsake my country when it hath most need of me and fail in that indissoluble duty which owe to my sovereign answer That if my country had at this time any need of my publie service Her Majesty thai governeth it would not have driven me into private life am tied to my country by two bonds one public to discharge care- fully and industriously that trust which is committed to me the other private to sacrifice for it my life and carcass which hath been nourished in it Of the first am free being dismissed by Her Majesty of the other nothing can free me but death and therefore no occasion of performance shall sooner offer itself but will meet it half way But you say must give way to time So do for now that see the storm come have put myself into harbour Seneca saith Wre must give way to fortune know that fortune is both blind and strong and therefore go as far as can out of the way You say the remedy is not