...said, Our friend, the Gypsy-Scholar, was not dead; While the tree lived, he in these fields lived on. Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here, But once...assay'd. Ah me! this many a year My pipe is lost, my shepherd's holiday! Needs must I lose them, needs with heavy heart Into the world and wave of men depart;...

...come I, since I came with him. That single elm-tree bright Against the west — I miss it! is it gone? Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here, But once...new-built rick. Here, too, our shepherd-pipes we first assayed. Ah me! this many a year My pipe is lost, my shepherd's holiday! Needs must I lose them, needs...

...said, Our friend, the Gipsy-Scholar, was not dead; While the tree lived, he in these fields lived on. Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here, But once...threshing-time, by new-built rick. Here, too, our shepherd pipes we first assay'd. Ah me! this many a year My pipe is lost, my shepherd's holiday! Needs...

...remember how the sad poet, revisiting the scenes of his pastoral wanderings with Thyrsis, says : — Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here, But once...with the country-folk acquaintance made By barn in threshing time, by new-built rick. Here too our shepherd pipes we first assay'd. Ah me 1 this many...