“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
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“Come calm content serene and sweet,
O gently guide my pilgrim feet
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“Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.”
II, l. 1-2.
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