O Ye Copsy Hills, Ye Green Meadows, And Ye Rich Streams In This
Blessed Country, How Have Ye Enchanted Me?
Still, however, let me
recollect and resolve, as I firmly do, that even ye shall not
prevent my return
To those barren and dusty lands where my, perhaps
a less indulgent, destiny has placed me, and where, in the due
discharge of all the arduous and important duties of that humble
function to which providence has called me, I must and I will
faithfully exert my best talents, and in that exertion find
pleasure, and I trust, happiness. In every future moment of my
life, however, the recollection of this scene, and the feelings it
inspired, shall cheer my labours and invigorate my efforts.
These were some of my reflections, my dearest friend, during my
solitary walk. Of the evening I passed at Richmond, I speak feebly
when I content myself with saying only, it was one of the
pleasantest I ever spent in my life.
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also
rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I
thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world
imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. How much more
charming must it be when glistening with the morning dew! These
fond hopes, alas, were all disappointed. In all great schemes of
enjoyment, it is, I believe, no bad way always to figure to yourself
some possible evil that may arise, and to anticipate a
disappointment.
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