...gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled : AH but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot...

...steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the blooming flush of life is fled: All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy...for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spreadTo pick her wintry fagot from the thorn— To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn: She...

...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot...

...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot way tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled ; All but yon widow'd, solitary...bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc,d in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot...

...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But...thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; VOL. n. F She, wretched matrtm, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...

...population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot- way tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled :...b'eside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot...

...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary...bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot...

...But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale. No busy steps ihe grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced,...

...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled: All but yon widow'd solitary...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left...

...gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread,. But all the hlooming flush of life is fled ; AH hut yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left...