The Codbeck Wedding. ......146 The Ship-wreck'd Sea-boy...219 The Ill-gien Weyfe ..... 153 The Thrush.................. .159 Britannia's Call ...............223 .161 The Lover's Trial ............224 .181 To Mary .238 .183 Crazy Kate... .239 The Castle Builder .241 186 Farewell. to Gilsland ..244 .188 Hodge and the Squire ..245 ..247 To Mary.. ..248 MISCELLANIES. THE WIDOW. "Mumbling to herself; Her eyes with scalding rheum were gall❜d and red; OTWAY. WHY sighs yon wretched being, whose patch'd weeds She weeps not at her growing poverty, Nor envies e'er the splendour of the world; But, mourning, sighs for long departed joys: An aged WIDOW, much she lov'd to gaze On him, a father's image. He, in youth, Regardless of all else, save one, would toil With his companion, chearfulness, the day; And oft the mountain's rugged brow he'd climb, To mark his distant dear-lov'd humble cot, And think with pleasure on his boyish years, Life's happy morn, when care gives way to mirth: Then would he anxious cull each wild-flow'r fair, Type of her beauty that had fir'd his breast; And proud was he at evening to behold A parent's fondness in a parent's smiles; A cot, the humble dwelling of content; And one, the sharer of his infant sports, His MARY; child of innocence, whose face Was fair, and seem'd the index of a mind, Pure as the unsullied snow-drop, gentle flow'r, The timid harbinger of welcome Spring, That drooping, chides dull Winter as it dies. 1 |