THE CURVED MEADOW. 249 



THE CURVED MEADOW. 



PARTING REMINISCENCES A CONFIDENCE 



THE HABITAT OF POUNDERS. 



THE TRUE EVENING RISE PLEASURES OF LIFE 



CONTRABAND THOUGHTS. 



non sine montium 



Clamore vicinseque silvae 

 Cum fera diluvies quietos 

 Inritat amnes. 



HORACE. 



Where the huge Pine and Poplar silver lined 

 With branches interlaced have made 



A hospital shade, 



And ( where by curving bank and hollow bay 

 The 'tremulous waters work their silent way. 



Translation of HORACE. 



THE price of the identity of the curved 

 meadow is, in my valuation, above 

 rubies; and I must trust to any one of 

 the few chance readers of these lines who knows, 

 or who guesses the secret, not to disclose it. 



Let him and I, or even at the very worst 

 them and I, keep this knowledge between us, 

 and hold it inviolate; not even mentioning it in 

 our wills, lest when we arise with rod and creel 

 in the happy hunting ground state, we should 

 find its marge and rushes trodden over and 



