| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | Echo and Silence | | By Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1837) |
| | | IN 1 eddying course when leaves began to fly, | |
| And Autumn in her lap the store to strew, | |
| As ’mid wild scenes I chanced the Muse to woo | |
| Through glens untrod, and woods that frowned on high, | |
| Two sleeping Nymphs with wonder mute I spy! | 5 |
| And lo, she ’s gone! In robe of dark green hue, | |
| ’T was Echo from her sister Silence flew; | |
| For quick the hunter’s horn resounded to the sky! | |
| In shade affrighted Silence melts away; | |
| Not so her sister:—hark! for onward still | 10 |
| With far heard step she takes her listening way, | |
| Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill! | |
| Ah, mark the merry maid in mockful play | |
| With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill. | |
| | | Note 1. From his “Recollections of Foreign Travel.” It is also in his “Autobiography.” [back] | | |
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