...blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing b-»o. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway, * From the v Lady of Iht Lalw. " And little reck I of the censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle lay....

...own times has so finely indicated when he sung " The secret woes the world has never known ; While on the weary night dawn'd wearier day, And bitterer was the grief devour' d alone." In this Elegy , Shenstone repines at the dispensations of Fortune , not for having...

...to the " harp of the north" wholly without its foundation in truth: " Much have I owed thy charms, on life's long way, Through secret woes the world has never known." But, referring to these lines, he observed with his usual good-humoured drollery, " as Master Stephen...

...blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! Yet...night dawn'd wearier day, And bitterer was the grief devour 'd alone. That I o'erlive such woes, Enchantress! is thine Hark ! as my lingering footsteps...

...blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! Yet,...the world has never known, When on the weary night dawned wearier day, And bitterer was the grief devoured alone. That I o'erlive such woes, Enchantress!...

...of housing hee, Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! ^et, once again, forgive my feehle sway And little reck I of the censure sharp May idly...the world has never known, When on the weary night dawned wearier day, And hitterer was the grief devoured alone. That I o'erlive such woes, Enchantress...

...blending, U ith distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou minstrel harp! Yet,...censure sharp, May idly cavil at an idle lay. Much have 1 owed thy strains on life's long way, Thro' secret woes the world has never known, When on the weary...

...blending, With dis-ant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet once again, farewell, thou minstrel Harp ! Yet...once again, forgive my feeble sway, And little reck 1 of the censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle lay. Much have I owed thy strains on life's long way,...

...blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herdboy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou minstrel harp ! Yet,...censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle lay. Much have 1 owed thy strains on life's long way, Through secret woes the world has never known, When on the weary...

...blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel harp! Yet,...known, When on the weary night dawn'd wearier day, 1 " On a comparison of tlic merits of this Poem with the two former productions of the same unquestioned...