ADVERTISEMENT. By Persons resident in the country and attached to rural objects, many places will be found unnamed or of unknown names, where little Incidents will have occurred, or feelings been experienced, which will have given to such places a private and peculiar interest. From a wish to give some sort of record to such Incidents or renew the gratification of such Feelings, Names have been given to Places by the Author and some of his Friends, and the following Poems written in consequence. POEMS on the NAMING of PLACES. I. It was an April Morning: fresh and clear Ran with a young man's speed, and yet the voice Was soften'd down into a vernal tone. The spirit of enjoyment and desire, And hopes and wishes, from all living things Το spur the steps of June; as if their shades Of various green were hindrances that stood Between them and their object: yet, meanwhile, Yet leafless, seem'd as though the countenance That could not cease to be. Green leaves were here, But 'twas the foliage of the rocks, the birch, -Soon did the spot become my other home, My dwelling, and my out-of-doors abode. And, of the Shepherds who have seen me there, Have told this fancy, two or three, perhaps, Years after we are gone and in our graves, May call it by the name of EMMA'S DELL. |