The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed from the old jury to fetter lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account. after three years expectation that things would mend, i accepted an advantages offer from captain William Prichard, who told me he was “making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4th, this year, and the voyage is going to be very prosperous. Come along if you wish, old chap.”
“But here is an artist,” The poet called. “He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco”
“What is the chief element he employs?”
“There stand his trees,” The poet replied to the young student. “each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.”
The student continues in the angst of youth: “But through the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down it’s sighs like leaves upon this shepherds hea-“
The poet cracks down the whip of interruption
“yet all were vain, unless the shepherds eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him”
“And in another moment i went down after it, never once considering how in the world i was to get out again” Alice babbled to her therapist.
“The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that I had not a moment to think about stopping myself before I found myself falling down a very deep well”
“All right honey” said the therapist, calmly. “You were found in a bush on grove street with a high amount of LSD in your system”
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