The other then softly brought something from the clump of trees, which Antonio perceived to be a light ladder: he placed it against the wall, and the Serenader gently ascended.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Indeed, the idea of the amorous Serenader continually haunted his mind.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
We see the sportsman in chase of the boar, the rustic setting snares for the greedy thrush, the Serenader under the casement, the plowman at his ingleside, the anxious mother at the window on the cliff, never taking her eyes from the curved shore, the husbandman passing industrious days on his own hillside, tilling his own acres with his own oxen, and training the vine to the unwedded tree, the young men of the hill-towns carrying bundles of fagots along rocky slopes, the rural holiday and its festivities, the sun-browned wife making ready the evening meal against the coming of the tired peasant.
"Horace and His Influence"
Grant Showerman