CHAP. V.] TRAVELS.

"While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard,
Displays her cleanly platter on the board:
And haply too some pilgrim, thither led,
With many a tale repays the nightly bed.
Thus every good his native wilds impart,
Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
And e'en those hills, that round his mansion rise,
Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies :
Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms,
And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ;
And as a child, when scaring sounds molest,
Clings close and closer to the mother's breast—
So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar,
But bind him to his native mountains more.

Such was the education of thought and heart now taking
the place of a more learned discipline in the truant wanderer;
sucli the wider range of sympathies and enjoyment opening
out upon his view; such the larger knowledge that awakened
in Mm, as the subtle perceptions of genius arose. More than
ever was he here, in the • practical paths of life, a loiterer
and laggard; yet as he passed from place to place, finding
for his foot no solid resting-grouncl, no spot of all the world
that he might hope to call his own, there was yet sinking deep
into the heart of the homeless vagrant that power and
possession to which all else on earth subserves and is
obedient, and which out of the very abyss of poverty and
want gave him a right and title over all.

For me your tributary stores combine ;
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine !

Descending into Piedmont he observed the floating bee-
houses of which he speaks so pleasantly in the Animated
Nature. * " As the bees are continually choosing their

* vi. 109.sly better. And In tha twenty-Moond line, tint