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See - https://archive.org/details/millerhisgoldend00leoniala - - -Transcriber’s note: - - The illustrations have been moved to the end of the - book to avoid disrupting the flow of the poem. - - - - - - THE - MILLER - AND - HIS GOLDEN DREAM. - - “With moderate blessings be content, - Nor idly grasp at every shade; - Peace, competence, a life well spent, - Are treasures that can never fade; - And he who weakly sighs for more— - —Augments his misery, not his store.” - - BY THE AUTHOR OF - “THE RUBY RING,” &c. - - WELLINGTON, SALOP: - _PRINTED BY AND FOR F. HOULSTON AND SON_, - And sold by Scatcherd and Co. Ave-Maria Lane, London. - - 1822. - - [_Entered at Stationers’ Hall._] - - - - -Advertisement. - - -In the construction of the following little Poem, the Author has declined -the aids of Genii, &c.—the powerful auxiliaries of her two former -works,—on the belief that a moral truth requires little of artificial -embellishment to render it attractive. She presents therefore a simple -unadorned tale to her young readers, as an experiment; not without hope -that their reception and approval of it may be such, as to sanction -future efforts, and to confirm her in the propriety of her present -opinion. - - - - -THE MILLER. - - - If, ’mid the passions of the breast, - There be one deadlier than the rest, - Whose poisonous influence would control - The generous purpose of the soul, - A cruel selfishness impart, - And harden, and contract the heart; - If such a passion be, the vice - Is unrelenting Avarice. - And would my youthful readers know - The features of this mortal foe, - The lineaments will hardly fail - To strike them in the following tale. - - In England—but it matters not - That I precisely name the spot— - A Miller liv’d, and humble fame - Had grac’d with rustic praise his name. - For many a year his village neighbours - Felt and confess’d his useful labours; - Swift flew his hours, on busy wing - Revolving in their rosy ring: - His life, alternate toil and rest, - Nor cares annoy’d, nor want oppress’d. - - Whang’s mill, beside a sparkling brook, - Stood shelter’d in a wooded nook: - The stream, the willow’s whispering trees, - The humming of the housing bees, - Swell’d with soft sounds the summer breeze; - Those simple sounds, that to the heart - A soothing influence impart, - And full on every sense convey - Th’ impression of a summer’s day. - - A cot, with clustering ivy crown’d, - Smil’d from a gently sloping mound, - Whose sunny banks, profusely gay, - Gave to the view, in proud display, - The many colour’d buds of May; - Flowers, that _spontaneous_ fringe the brink - Of sinuous Tame, and bend to drink. - My native River! at thy name - What mix’d emotions thrill my frame! - Through the dim vista of past years, - How shadowy soft thy scene appears! - With earliest recollections twin’d, - To thee still fondly turns my mind; - While Memory paints with faithful force - The grace of thy meandering course - ’Neath bending boughs, whose mingling shade - Now hid, and now thy stream betray’d.— - Bright—though long distant from my view— - Rise all thy magic charms anew; - And on thy calm and shallowy shore - Again, in Fancy’s eye, I pore, - The steps retrace, our infant feet - So buoyant trod, and once more meet - Each object in my wandering gaze - That form’d the joys of “other days.” - All, all return, and with them bring - The “life of life,” its vivid spring. - The sun is bright, the flowers re-bloom, - Cold friends are kind, kind e’en the tomb: - For one brief moment ’tis forgot - There once _were_ those, who now _are not_. - Eyes beam, and hearts as fondly beat, - Voices their wonted tones repeat— - But ’tis on Fancy’s ear alone— - I wake, alas! and _all are gone_! - - Yet, Tame, the theme of childish praise, - For thee were fram’d my earliest lays; - Thy banks of all were deem’d the pride, - Thy flowers, by none to be outvied. - Those days are past—and sad I view - The time I bade thee, Tame, adieu: - Those days are gone, and I have seen - Full many a river’s margent green; - Full many a bursting bud display - The rich luxuriance of May— - But loveliest _still_ thy flowers I deem, - And dearest thou, my native stream! - - Thus clings around our early joys - A mystic charm no time destroys, - Endearing recollections more, - When all of _real_ joy is o’er. - - Forgive, Whang, this digressive strain; - The journey done, I’m yours again. - If for a simile I sought - Back through the distant tracks of thought, - The flowers I gather’d by the way - Upon your fabled banks I lay; - Where primrose groups were yearly seen - Peeping beneath their curtain green, - With aromatic mint beside, - And violets in purple pride. - In gay festoons, o’er hazles thrown, - Hung many a woodbine’s floral crown; - The brier-rose too, that woos the bee, - And thyme, that sighs its odours free. - The lark, the blackbird, and the thrush, - Hymn’d happiness from every bush: - The Eden to their lot assign’d - Fill’d with content the feather’d kind; - Example worthy _him_, I ween, - Who reign’d sole monarch of the scene— - The Miller.——“What!” you will enquire, - “Possess’d he not his soul’s desire? - Ah! could his wishes soar above - The calm of this untroubled grove?” - Alas! his frailty must be told— - Whang entertain’d a love for gold: - And none, whatever their demerit, - That did of wealth a store inherit, - But gain’d (so strong the dire dominion) - Whang’s reverence, and his best opinion. - “_Gold_, my dear spouse,” would cry his wife, - “Is call’d an _evil_ of our life.” - “True,” Whang rejoin’d, “the only _evil_ - Whose visits I consider civil; - But ’tis, alack!—the thought is grievous— - _The evil_ most in haste to leave us.” - - ’Twere proper that my readers knew, - That, by _degrees_, this passion grew; - Not _always_ was the silly elf - So craving, coveting of pelf, - Though he was ever prone to hold - In high esteem _pound-notes_ and _gold_: - And CIRCUMSTANCES sometimes root - Firm in the mind the _feeblest_ shoot; - A truth, erewhile, this man of meal - By his example will reveal. - - “True,” would he say, “I am not poor: - What then? may I not wish for more? - This paltry mill provides me food, - Keeps dame and I from famine—good! - Yet, mark the labour I endure, - A meagre living to secure. - ’Tis lucky that I have my health, - Since this poor mill is all my wealth; - Though irksome, I confess, to toil - To catch Dame Fortune’s niggard smile, - When she so prodigal can be - To men of less desert than me, - Throwing her bounties in their lap, - Almost without their asking—slap! - ’Twas but to-day that I was told, - With truth I’ll vouch, a pan of gold - Seen by a neighbour in a dream— - —Thrice dreamt on, though, as it should seem— - My neighbour dug for, as directed— - (Shame had such warning been neglected!)— - Dug for, and, better still, he found - A treasure hidden under ground, - In the same spot, or thereabout, - His happy dream had pointed out. - Such riches _now_ his coffers fill, - No more he labours, let who will. - I wish with all my heart,” he cried, - “I wish such luck may me betide!” - So saying, from the bags he started, - While through his brain vague fancies darted, - And with a brisker air and gait - He left the mill to seek his Kate, - The golden vision to relate. - At eve, before the cottage-door, - They talk’d the wondrous story o’er; - And every time it was repeated, - With warmer hope Whang’s brain was heated. - Complacent to his bed he hies, - Certain, when sleep should close his eyes, - Like _him_ to dream who gain’d the prize: - And doubtless _might_ have dream’d the same; - But neither sleep nor vision came. - He toss’d and turn’d him all night long, - Tried all manœuvres—all were wrong. - “Had never known the like before, - Was us’d to sleep quite sound, and snore; - But now, when he desir’d it most, - The art to sleep seem’d wholly lost.” - - When Hope (t’ indulge a short digression) - Gains of weak minds complete possession, - She buoys them up, like cork and sail, - ’Gainst Disappointment’s heavy gale. - So Whang, with undishearten’d mind, - Trusting the _future_ would be kind, - Rose from his dreamless bed next morn - Neither discourag’d nor forlorn: - With one idea fill’d, he sought - His mill, but little there he wrought. - Week follow’d week, and months the same, - Whang slept indeed, but could not dream; - Yet, prescient still of his success, - His industry grew less and less. - He thought it wrong in him to labour, - Who, by and by, might, like his neighbour, - Receive the happy wish’d-for warning, - And wake to thousands in the morning! - It was amusing to observe - His solemn pomp, his proud reserve, - His sad exchange of glee, for state, - That ill-beseem’d his rustic gait. - His temper open, far from vicious, - Chang’d too—for he was grown ambitious. - He, that so early erst was seen - With active step to cross the green, - Now slept, supinely slept away - The prime, the golden hours of day. - The sun shot down his highest beam - Upon th’ unprofitable stream; - Whang’s duty bade him sleep and dream. - I will not say but Whang was born - With sense enough to grind his corn, - Or on a market-day to tell - Whether ’twere good to buy or sell; - But since the store his neighbour found, - I dare not say his wits were sound. - In sad neglect the mill-wheel stood - That long supplied his daily food; - And marvelling neighbours shook the head, - Amaz’d the Miller’s glee was fled. - Some thought his conscience overcast - Was but a judgment for the _past_. - Old Robin with a wink could tell - That “Whang had manag’d matters well; - He shrewdly guess’d how things would end, - For gain, ill-gotten, would not spend.” - And Gammer Gabble _now_ could prate - That her “last sack had wanted weight.” - _She_ “knew the Miller long ago, - And wonder’d _others_ did not know.” - So all most prudently prepare - To trust their grain to better care. - Thus, by degrees the stores declin’d, - Till Whang had scarce a batch to grind. - No matter! Hope still talk’d the more - About his unfound hidden store: - But inauspicious yet appear’d - His wish; no warning voice was heard. - Now Mistress Whang, of nature humble, - Had smil’d to hear her husband grumble, - And would admonish him, ’tis said, - To chase vain phantoms from his head. - She, more incredulous, insisted - His visions ought to be resisted; - Thought they had chang’d his very nature, - And sourly curl’d each homely feature: - She felt full dearly they bestood - Sad substitutes for wholesome food. - - At issue long, as oft the case, - The war of words to peace gave place. - In truth the visionary Whang - Ceas’d now entirely to harangue - On this dear theme:—he hated _doubt_, - And Kate had many, staunch and stout: - And in a hostile muster, they - Gave her the better of the fray. - Though silent on his favourite theme, - He did resolve, when he _should_ dream, - And _find_ th’ anticipated pelf, - To _keep_ the secret to _himself_; - For he averr’d it “quite vexatious - His wife should be so pertinacious.” - No passions vain _her_ heart misled: - The path of humble peace to tread - Was her sole aim; of this secure, - She felt content, nor sigh’d for more. - She griev’d to find her counsels failing, - They were sincere, though unavailing; - And oft midst wishes, fears, and sighs, - ’Twas thus she would soliloquise:— - “My pretty window! that commands - Those meadows green, and wooded lands, - So sunny, that the latest ray - Its panes receive of parting day. - O! with what joy, when near it plac’d, - I’ve watch’d my husband homeward haste! - Or heard, from fair returning late, - The welcome sounds of ‘Holla, Kate!’ - Through it I trace on every hand - Beauties, would grace a fairy-land, - And think that, like a grateful eye, - It smiles on all beneath the sky. - There, too, my sweet geranium blows, - And mignionette, and crimson rose, - When all without is clad in snows. - I doubt me, if a princess feels - More joy than that which o’er me steals, - When light and morn my slumbers break, - And to this blissful scene I wake. - I cannot form a wish beside - What Heaven’s bounty has supplied, - Save that to Whang I could impart - The same content that fills my heart; - Yield him that thankful state of rest, - Or teach to _prize the good possess’d_.” - - Good fortune seldom comes too late; - For lo! at last indulgent Fate - Smil’d on the importunate swain, - And eas’d at length his anxious pain. - Dreams—one,—two,—three,—th’ important number, - Omen’d him hence to quit his slumber, - With spade and mattock arm’d, to delve - Six feet—nay, I believe ’twas twelve, - Close by the long-forsaken mill— - He flies, the mission to fulfil! - The mattock rings, the spade descends, - The sturdy arm its vigour lends; - At such light labour who could sleep? - Whang is already three feet deep! - Upon the spade observe him smile: - What sees he?—what?—a broken tile; - The very tile his dream foretold, - A landmark to his pan of gold! - Upturns one token more—a bone! - And now, behold the broad flat stone! - A moment on its ample size - He gaz’d with wide distended eyes— - “Beneath _that_ is the pan!” he cries. - “’Twas under such a stone as this - That neighbour Drowsypate found his. - So then, at last, my hopes are crown’d! - Come, then, let’s raise thee from the ground.” - But, ere to lift the stone he tries, - He shook his head, not over wise, - And, with a self-approving glance, - One foot a little in advance, - With nose and lip contemptuous curl’d, - That said, “A fig for all the world!” - He cried, “My wife, she, silly trot! - Shall never know the wealth I’ve got: - To punish her I made a _vow_; - The time is come, I’ll keep it now. - She could not dream, poor fool! not she; - Some trite old tale of ‘busy bee,’ - Of saving pins, and pence, and groats, - For ever occupied _her_ thoughts. - Besides, the hussey laugh’d outright - Whene’er I pass’d a dreamless night. - Yes, yes, I will requite her scorn; - She’ll rue it, sure as she is born!”—— - Ah, bootless boast! the stone so great - Exceeds by far his strength in weight. - In vain he digs and delves the ground, - And clears away the rubbish round, - And gathering strength with his vexation, - Widens the fearful excavation. - He cannot move the stone for life; - So forc’d at last, he calls his wife, - Imparts the fact so long repress’d, - And glads, reluctantly, her breast. - The news he stated wak’d her fear; - What gave delight at first to hear, - One apprehension turn’d to pain— - She trembled for her husband’s brain. - “Can it be true?” cried she, misdeeming; - “Dear Whang, too surely thou _art dreaming_: - Try, recollect thyself, good man—” - “Tut, hussey! why, I’ll shew the pan: - Only a minute’s help I ask, - And thou shalt see’t—a trifling task - Just to remove, I know not what, - A stone, it may be, from the spot. - Come, come, thy hand.” They gain the door, - When, turning, Kate asks, “_Are you sure?_” - “_Sure? yes_,” vociferates her spouse. - This said, they issue from the house— - “I’m _certain_, as to all I’ve told, - As if e’en _now_ I _touch’d_ the _gold_: - _Sure_ as that I no more will bear - This russet doublet now to wear:— - That I no more will condescend - To own Ralph Roughspeech for _my friend_, - Nor tolerate the pert monition - Of neighbours, in my chang’d condition: - _Sure_—but, ye Powers! what do I see?— - The mill! the mill!—Oh! woe is me! - My only stay, my certain aid, - All level with the earth is laid!—— - Presumptuous! I have scorn’d my fate, - And wrought this mischief: all too late - The error of my life I see, - And misery my portion be. - Time, that no more I may recal, - By wise men priz’d, and dear to all, - How have I squander’d! how abus’d! - My friends, my neighbours, basely us’d! - How shall I bear, acquaintance meeting, - Scorn to behold where once was greeting? - Now comes _their_ turn to treat the fool - With jeers, contempt, and ridicule. - Laugh’d at on all sides—and to know - And _feel_ I have _deserv’d_ the blow! - Undone by mine own discontent!— - But ah! too late I do repent. - Forc’d now in poverty to roam, - I soon must quit this quiet home; - And where with thee, poor Kate! to fly?— - Oh! I could lay me down and die! - Wretch that I am! Kate, Kate, forgive!” - “_My_ pardon, dearest Whang, receive: - But ’twas not _I_ who gave thee health, - Strength, talent to improve thy wealth; - Who cast thy lot in such fair land, - Or bless’d thee with such liberal hand. - O! turn to _Him_ with thankful prayer - Who deigns e’en yet thy life to spare; - Implore His pardon—kneel with me; - This ruin might have cover’d _thee_. - But thou art spar’d, and yet remain - The means our livelihood to gain: - A heartfelt willing perseverance - Will mend our lot before a year hence. - Thou knowest well that neighbour Ralph - Each morn will spare an hour or half - To help us to repair the mill.” - “Doest think,” Whang blushing ask’d, “he will?” - “Yes, yes, I do believe so too, - He was a neighbour kind and true; - And if his counsels gave offence, - The fault was in my want of sense. - Yet, ideot! I”—“Enough!” cried Kate, - Exulting in her alter’d mate; - “To see our faults in their just light, - Is next akin to acting right. - But time no longer let us waste; - I’ll to friend Roughspeech quickly haste: - Own thou, meanwhile,” she smiling cried, - “To have a help-mate in thy bride - Is _treasure perhaps_ of equal worth - With _aught conceal’d beneath the earth_.” - With look of conscious proud delight, - She caught the sound of, “Kate, thou’rt right;” - While a “small voice” responsive join’d - Applausive music in her mind. - - Then turn’d she from the yawning ground, - And, eying Whang with thought profound, - Saw in his look, on her that bent, - A meaning most intelligent. - A wish defin’d she saw, and knelt; - Beside her soon his form she felt: - Then, with join’d hands uplift in air, - Burst from their lips the ardent prayer. - With brighter hopes from earth they rose, - Nor long (—for so the story goes) - In idle wailings spent the day: - Just then a neighbour pass’d that way.— - Whang turn’d his head; a crimson streak - Rush’d hastily across his cheek, - And Cath’rine’s palpitating breast - A momentary shame confess’d: - For well they knew, Old Robin’s tale - Soon through the village would prevail, - And bring a host about their ears, - With pity some, and some with jeers. - But _guilt_ and _folly_ must endure - The _caustics_ that effect a cure. - Whang therefore strove, with patient heart, - To bear th’ anticipated smart; - Nor vainly strove: the threaten’d ill - Fell, he with patience met it still. - Few in the morning of his grief - Or gave, or proffer’d him relief. - Those who had _counsell’d heretofore_, - Excus’d themselves from doing more, - “Presuming nothing _they_ could offer - Would meet acceptance from the scoffer.” - Others, meanwhile, of nature good, - Assisted, comforted, withstood - With honest scorn the worldling’s cant, - Nor shunn’d a neighbour, though in want. - To all, Whang bore an humble mien, - By all, his contrite spirit’s seen; - Till even they who smil’d at first, - When o’er his head the tempest burst, - Were forc’d, in justice, to declare - His penitence _appear’d sincere_. - “They trusted, nay, _almost believ’d_ - His loss of character retriev’d:” - And, soften’d by his chang’d address, - “Good fortune _wish’d_, and happiness.” - - And he _was_ happy—“he was bless’d - Beyond desert,” he oft confessed, - By friends, by all the good caress’d. - A smiling garden, rescu’d mill, - His dear old cottage on the hill, - A faithful wife, a conscience clear, - Shed brightness on each coming year. - - The church-yard stone, that bears his name, - Records his failing and his fame; - And, in his life and death, conveys - A moral truth to future days. - -FINIS. - -[Illustration: - - Burst from their lips the ardent prayer. - -_Page 28._] - -[Illustration: - - ’Tis lucky that I have my health. - Since this poor mill is all my wealth: - -_Page 12._] - -[Illustration: - - At eve before the cottage-door. - They talk’d the wondrous story o’er; - -_Page 14._] - -[Illustration: - - My pretty window! that commands - Those meadows green and wooded lands. - -_Page 19._] - -[Illustration: - - One foot a little in advance. - With nose and lip contemptuous curl’d. - That said, “A fig for all the world!” - -_Page 22._] - -[Illustration: - - ——ye Powers! what do I see?—— - -_Page 24._] - - - - -***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MILLER AND HIS GOLDEN DREAM*** - - -******* This file should be named 62767-0.txt or 62767-0.zip ******* - - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/2/7/6/62767 - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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