Page:Byron - Hours of idleness. A series of poems original and translated, by George Gordon Lord Byron a minor, 1807.djvu/27

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Again I revisit the hills where we sported,
The streams, where we swam, and the fields, where where we fought;
The school, where loud warned, by the bell, we resorted,
To pore o'er the precepts by Pedagogues taught.

4.
Again I behold, where for hours I have ponder'd,
As reclining, at eve, on yon tombstone I lay;
Or round the steep brow of the churchyard I wander'd,
To catch the last gleam of the sun's setting ray.

5.
I once more view the room, with spectators surrounded,
Where, as Zanga, I trod on Alonzo o'erthrown;
While, to swell my young pride, such applauses resounded,
I fancied that Mossop[1] himself was outshone.



  1. Mossop, a cotemporary of Garrick, famous for his performance of Zanga, in Young's tragedy of the Revenge.