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Mazelli, and Other Poems
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"Stay, traveller, stay thy weary steed, The sultry hour of noon is near, Of rest thy way-worn limbs have need, Stay, then, and, taste its sweetness here. The mountain path which thou hast sped Is steep, and difficult to tread, And many a farther step ’twill cost, Ere thou wilt find another host; But if thou scorn’st not humble fare, Such as the pilgrim loves to share,— Not luxury’s enfeebling spoil, But bread secured by patient toil— Then lend thine ear to my request, And be the old man’s welcome guest. Thou seest yon aged willow tree, In all its summer pomp arrayed, ’Tis near, wend thither, then, with me, My cot is built beneath its shade; And from its roots clear waters burst To cool thy lip, and quench thy thirst:— I love it, and if harm should, come To it, I think that I should weep; ’Tis as a guardian of my home, So faithfully it seems to keep Its watch above the spot where I Have lived so long, and mean to die. Come, pardon me for prating thus, But age, you know, is garrulous; And in life’s dim decline, we hold Thrice dear whate’er we loved of old,— The stream upon whose banks we played, The forest through whose shades we strayed, The spot to which from sober truth We stole to dream the dreams of youth, The single star of all Night’s zone, Which we have chosen as our own, Each has its haunting memory Of things which never more may be."
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Chicago: George W. Sands, "I.," Mazelli, and Other Poems, ed. Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945 and trans. Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853- in Mazelli, and Other Poems (London: George Bell and Sons, 1883), Original Sources, accessed December 9, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=96XLWEIVSWZR9DE.
MLA: Sands, George W. "I." Mazelli, and Other Poems, edited by Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, and translated by Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853-, in Mazelli, and Other Poems, Vol. 3, London, George Bell and Sons, 1883, Original Sources. 9 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=96XLWEIVSWZR9DE.
Harvard: Sands, GW, 'I.' in Mazelli, and Other Poems, ed. and trans. . cited in 1883, Mazelli, and Other Poems, George Bell and Sons, London. Original Sources, retrieved 9 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=96XLWEIVSWZR9DE.
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