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If you are not -located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this ebook.</p> -<p>Title: The Miller and his Golden Dream</p> -<p>Author: Eliza Lucy Leonard</p> -<p>Release Date: July 27, 2020 [eBook #62767]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: UTF-8</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MILLER AND HIS GOLDEN DREAM***</p> -<p> </p> -<h4 class="pgx" title="">E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="https://archive.org">https://archive.org</a>)</h4> -<p> </p> -<table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> - <tr> - <td valign="top"> - Note: - </td> - <td> - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - <a href="https://archive.org/details/millerhisgoldend00leoniala"> - https://archive.org/details/millerhisgoldend00leoniala</a> - </td> - </tr> -</table> -<p> </p> -<p class="transnote"><b>Transcriber’s Note:</b> The illustrations -have been moved to the end of the book -to avoid disrupting the flow of the poem.</p> -<hr class="pgx" /> -<p> </p> -<p> </p> -<p> </p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<h1><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -MILLER<br /> -<span class="smaller">AND</span><br /> -HIS GOLDEN DREAM.</h1> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">“With moderate blessings be content,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nor idly grasp at every shade;</div> - <div class="verse">Peace, competence, a life well spent,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Are treasures that can never fade;</div> - <div class="verse">And he who weakly sighs for more—</div> - <div class="verse">—Augments his misery, not his store.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">BY THE AUTHOR OF</span><br /> -“THE RUBY RING,” &c.</p> - -<p class="titlepage">WELLINGTON, SALOP:<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>PRINTED BY AND FOR F. HOULSTON AND SON</i>,<br /> -And sold by Scatcherd and Co. Ave-Maria Lane, London.</span></p> - -<p class="center">1822.</p> - -<p class="center smaller">[<i>Entered at Stationers’ Hall.</i>]</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Advertisement">Advertisement.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -MILLER.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">If, ’mid the passions of the breast,</div> - <div class="verse">There be one deadlier than the rest,</div> - <div class="verse">Whose poisonous influence would control</div> - <div class="verse">The generous purpose of the soul,</div> - <div class="verse">A cruel selfishness impart,</div> - <div class="verse">And harden, and contract the heart;</div> - <div class="verse">If such a passion be, the vice</div> - <div class="verse">Is unrelenting Avarice.</div> - <div class="verse">And would my youthful readers know</div> - <div class="verse">The features of this mortal foe,</div> - <div class="verse">The lineaments will hardly fail</div> - <div class="verse">To strike them in the following tale.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">In England—but it matters not</div> - <div class="verse">That I precisely name the spot—</div> - <div class="verse">A Miller liv’d, and humble fame</div> - <div class="verse">Had grac’d with rustic praise his name.</div> - <div class="verse">For many a year his village neighbours</div> - <div class="verse">Felt and confess’d his useful labours;</div> - <div class="verse">Swift flew his hours, on busy wing</div> - <div class="verse">Revolving in their rosy ring:</div> - <div class="verse">His life, alternate toil and rest,</div> - <div class="verse">Nor cares annoy’d, nor want oppress’d.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Whang’s mill, beside a sparkling brook,</div> - <div class="verse">Stood shelter’d in a wooded nook:</div> - <div class="verse">The stream, the willow’s whispering trees,</div> - <div class="verse">The humming of the housing bees,</div> - <div class="verse">Swell’d with soft sounds the summer breeze;</div> - <div class="verse">Those simple sounds, that to the heart</div> - <div class="verse">A soothing influence impart,</div> - <div class="verse">And full on every sense convey</div> - <div class="verse">Th’ impression of a summer’s day.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">A cot, with clustering ivy crown’d,</div> - <div class="verse">Smil’d from a gently sloping mound,</div> - <div class="verse">Whose sunny banks, profusely gay,</div> - <div class="verse">Gave to the view, in proud display,</div> - <div class="verse">The many colour’d buds of May;</div> - <div class="verse">Flowers, that <i>spontaneous</i> fringe the brink</div> - <div class="verse">Of sinuous Tame, and bend to drink.</div> - <div class="verse">My native River! at thy name</div> - <div class="verse">What mix’d emotions thrill my frame!</div> - <div class="verse">Through the dim vista of past years,</div> - <div class="verse">How shadowy soft thy scene appears!</div> - <div class="verse">With earliest recollections twin’d,</div> - <div class="verse">To thee still fondly turns my mind;</div> - <div class="verse">While Memory paints with faithful force</div> - <div class="verse">The grace of thy meandering course</div> - <div class="verse">’Neath bending boughs, whose mingling shade</div> - <div class="verse">Now hid, and now thy stream betray’d.—</div> - <div class="verse">Bright—though long distant from my view—</div> - <div class="verse">Rise all thy magic charms anew;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> - <div class="verse">And on thy calm and shallowy shore</div> - <div class="verse">Again, in Fancy’s eye, I pore,</div> - <div class="verse">The steps retrace, our infant feet</div> - <div class="verse">So buoyant trod, and once more meet</div> - <div class="verse">Each object in my wandering gaze</div> - <div class="verse">That form’d the joys of “other days.”</div> - <div class="verse">All, all return, and with them bring</div> - <div class="verse">The “life of life,” its vivid spring.</div> - <div class="verse">The sun is bright, the flowers re-bloom,</div> - <div class="verse">Cold friends are kind, kind e’en the tomb:</div> - <div class="verse">For one brief moment ’tis forgot</div> - <div class="verse">There once <i>were</i> those, who now <i>are not</i>.</div> - <div class="verse">Eyes beam, and hearts as fondly beat,</div> - <div class="verse">Voices their wonted tones repeat—</div> - <div class="verse">But ’tis on Fancy’s ear alone—</div> - <div class="verse">I wake, alas! and <i>all are gone</i>!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Yet, Tame, the theme of childish praise,</div> - <div class="verse">For thee were fram’d my earliest lays;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> - <div class="verse">Thy banks of all were deem’d the pride,</div> - <div class="verse">Thy flowers, by none to be outvied.</div> - <div class="verse">Those days are past—and sad I view</div> - <div class="verse">The time I bade thee, Tame, adieu:</div> - <div class="verse">Those days are gone, and I have seen</div> - <div class="verse">Full many a river’s margent green;</div> - <div class="verse">Full many a bursting bud display</div> - <div class="verse">The rich luxuriance of May—</div> - <div class="verse">But loveliest <i>still</i> thy flowers I deem,</div> - <div class="verse">And dearest thou, my native stream!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Thus clings around our early joys</div> - <div class="verse">A mystic charm no time destroys,</div> - <div class="verse">Endearing recollections more,</div> - <div class="verse">When all of <i>real</i> joy is o’er.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Forgive, Whang, this digressive strain;</div> - <div class="verse">The journey done, I’m yours again.</div> - <div class="verse">If for a simile I sought</div> - <div class="verse">Back through the distant tracks of thought,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> - <div class="verse">The flowers I gather’d by the way</div> - <div class="verse">Upon your fabled banks I lay;</div> - <div class="verse">Where primrose groups were yearly seen</div> - <div class="verse">Peeping beneath their curtain green,</div> - <div class="verse">With aromatic mint beside,</div> - <div class="verse">And violets in purple pride.</div> - <div class="verse">In gay festoons, o’er hazles thrown,</div> - <div class="verse">Hung many a woodbine’s floral crown;</div> - <div class="verse">The brier-rose too, that woos the bee,</div> - <div class="verse">And thyme, that sighs its odours free.</div> - <div class="verse">The lark, the blackbird, and the thrush,</div> - <div class="verse">Hymn’d happiness from every bush:</div> - <div class="verse">The Eden to their lot assign’d</div> - <div class="verse">Fill’d with content the feather’d kind;</div> - <div class="verse">Example worthy <i>him</i>, I ween,</div> - <div class="verse">Who reign’d sole monarch of the scene—</div> - <div class="verse">The Miller.——“What!” you will enquire,</div> - <div class="verse">“Possess’d he not his soul’s desire?</div> - <div class="verse">Ah! could his wishes soar above</div> - <div class="verse">The calm of this untroubled grove?”</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span> - <div class="verse">Alas! his frailty must be told—</div> - <div class="verse">Whang entertain’d a love for gold:</div> - <div class="verse">And none, whatever their demerit,</div> - <div class="verse">That did of wealth a store inherit,</div> - <div class="verse">But gain’d (so strong the dire dominion)</div> - <div class="verse">Whang’s reverence, and his best opinion.</div> - <div class="verse">“<i>Gold</i>, my dear spouse,” would cry his wife,</div> - <div class="verse">“Is call’d an <i>evil</i> of our life.”</div> - <div class="verse">“True,” Whang rejoin’d, “the only <i>evil</i></div> - <div class="verse">Whose visits I consider civil;</div> - <div class="verse">But ’tis, alack!—the thought is grievous—</div> - <div class="verse"><i>The evil</i> most in haste to leave us.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">’Twere proper that my readers knew,</div> - <div class="verse">That, by <i>degrees</i>, this passion grew;</div> - <div class="verse">Not <i>always</i> was the silly elf</div> - <div class="verse">So craving, coveting of pelf,</div> - <div class="verse">Though he was ever prone to hold</div> - <div class="verse">In high esteem <i>pound-notes</i> and <i>gold</i>:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> - <div class="verse">And <span class="smcap">circumstances</span> sometimes root</div> - <div class="verse">Firm in the mind the <i>feeblest</i> shoot;</div> - <div class="verse">A truth, erewhile, this man of meal</div> - <div class="verse">By his example will reveal.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“True,” would he say, “I am not poor:</div> - <div class="verse">What then? may I not wish for more?</div> - <div class="verse">This paltry mill provides me food,</div> - <div class="verse">Keeps dame and I from famine—good!</div> - <div class="verse">Yet, mark the labour I endure,</div> - <div class="verse">A meagre living to secure.</div> - <div class="verse">’Tis lucky that I have my health,</div> - <div class="verse">Since this poor mill is all my wealth;</div> - <div class="verse">Though irksome, I confess, to toil</div> - <div class="verse">To catch Dame Fortune’s niggard smile,</div> - <div class="verse">When she so prodigal can be</div> - <div class="verse">To men of less desert than me,</div> - <div class="verse">Throwing her bounties in their lap,</div> - <div class="verse">Almost without their asking—slap!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> - <div class="verse">’Twas but to-day that I was told,</div> - <div class="verse">With truth I’ll vouch, a pan of gold</div> - <div class="verse">Seen by a neighbour in a dream—</div> - <div class="verse">—Thrice dreamt on, though, as it should seem—</div> - <div class="verse">My neighbour dug for, as directed—</div> - <div class="verse">(Shame had such warning been neglected!)—</div> - <div class="verse">Dug for, and, better still, he found</div> - <div class="verse">A treasure hidden under ground,</div> - <div class="verse">In the same spot, or thereabout,</div> - <div class="verse">His happy dream had pointed out.</div> - <div class="verse">Such riches <i>now</i> his coffers fill,</div> - <div class="verse">No more he labours, let who will.</div> - <div class="verse">I wish with all my heart,” he cried,</div> - <div class="verse">“I wish such luck may me betide!”</div> - <div class="verse">So saying, from the bags he started,</div> - <div class="verse">While through his brain vague fancies darted,</div> - <div class="verse">And with a brisker air and gait</div> - <div class="verse">He left the mill to seek his Kate,</div> - <div class="verse">The golden vision to relate.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> - <div class="verse">At eve, before the cottage-door,</div> - <div class="verse">They talk’d the wondrous story o’er;</div> - <div class="verse">And every time it was repeated,</div> - <div class="verse">With warmer hope Whang’s brain was heated.</div> - <div class="verse">Complacent to his bed he hies,</div> - <div class="verse">Certain, when sleep should close his eyes,</div> - <div class="verse">Like <i>him</i> to dream who gain’d the prize:</div> - <div class="verse">And doubtless <i>might</i> have dream’d the same;</div> - <div class="verse">But neither sleep nor vision came.</div> - <div class="verse">He toss’d and turn’d him all night long,</div> - <div class="verse">Tried all manœuvres—all were wrong.</div> - <div class="verse">“Had never known the like before,</div> - <div class="verse">Was us’d to sleep quite sound, and snore;</div> - <div class="verse">But now, when he desir’d it most,</div> - <div class="verse">The art to sleep seem’d wholly lost.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">When Hope (t’ indulge a short digression)</div> - <div class="verse">Gains of weak minds complete possession,</div> - <div class="verse">She buoys them up, like cork and sail,</div> - <div class="verse">’Gainst Disappointment’s heavy gale.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> - <div class="verse">So Whang, with undishearten’d mind,</div> - <div class="verse">Trusting the <i>future</i> would be kind,</div> - <div class="verse">Rose from his dreamless bed next morn</div> - <div class="verse">Neither discourag’d nor forlorn:</div> - <div class="verse">With one idea fill’d, he sought</div> - <div class="verse">His mill, but little there he wrought.</div> - <div class="verse">Week follow’d week, and months the same,</div> - <div class="verse">Whang slept indeed, but could not dream;</div> - <div class="verse">Yet, prescient still of his success,</div> - <div class="verse">His industry grew less and less.</div> - <div class="verse">He thought it wrong in him to labour,</div> - <div class="verse">Who, by and by, might, like his neighbour,</div> - <div class="verse">Receive the happy wish’d-for warning,</div> - <div class="verse">And wake to thousands in the morning!</div> - <div class="verse">It was amusing to observe</div> - <div class="verse">His solemn pomp, his proud reserve,</div> - <div class="verse">His sad exchange of glee, for state,</div> - <div class="verse">That ill-beseem’d his rustic gait.</div> - <div class="verse">His temper open, far from vicious,</div> - <div class="verse">Chang’d too—for he was grown ambitious.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> - <div class="verse">He, that so early erst was seen</div> - <div class="verse">With active step to cross the green,</div> - <div class="verse">Now slept, supinely slept away</div> - <div class="verse">The prime, the golden hours of day.</div> - <div class="verse">The sun shot down his highest beam</div> - <div class="verse">Upon th’ unprofitable stream;</div> - <div class="verse">Whang’s duty bade him sleep and dream.</div> - <div class="verse">I will not say but Whang was born</div> - <div class="verse">With sense enough to grind his corn,</div> - <div class="verse">Or on a market-day to tell</div> - <div class="verse">Whether ’twere good to buy or sell;</div> - <div class="verse">But since the store his neighbour found,</div> - <div class="verse">I dare not say his wits were sound.</div> - <div class="verse">In sad neglect the mill-wheel stood</div> - <div class="verse">That long supplied his daily food;</div> - <div class="verse">And marvelling neighbours shook the head,</div> - <div class="verse">Amaz’d the Miller’s glee was fled.</div> - <div class="verse">Some thought his conscience overcast</div> - <div class="verse">Was but a judgment for the <i>past</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span> - <div class="verse">Old Robin with a wink could tell</div> - <div class="verse">That “Whang had manag’d matters well;</div> - <div class="verse">He shrewdly guess’d how things would end,</div> - <div class="verse">For gain, ill-gotten, would not spend.”</div> - <div class="verse">And Gammer Gabble <i>now</i> could prate</div> - <div class="verse">That her “last sack had wanted weight.”</div> - <div class="verse"><i>She</i> “knew the Miller long ago,</div> - <div class="verse">And wonder’d <i>others</i> did not know.”</div> - <div class="verse">So all most prudently prepare</div> - <div class="verse">To trust their grain to better care.</div> - <div class="verse">Thus, by degrees the stores declin’d,</div> - <div class="verse">Till Whang had scarce a batch to grind.</div> - <div class="verse">No matter! Hope still talk’d the more</div> - <div class="verse">About his unfound hidden store:</div> - <div class="verse">But inauspicious yet appear’d</div> - <div class="verse">His wish; no warning voice was heard.</div> - <div class="verse">Now Mistress Whang, of nature humble,</div> - <div class="verse">Had smil’d to hear her husband grumble,</div> - <div class="verse">And would admonish him, ’tis said,</div> - <div class="verse">To chase vain phantoms from his head.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> - <div class="verse">She, more incredulous, insisted</div> - <div class="verse">His visions ought to be resisted;</div> - <div class="verse">Thought they had chang’d his very nature,</div> - <div class="verse">And sourly curl’d each homely feature:</div> - <div class="verse">She felt full dearly they bestood</div> - <div class="verse">Sad substitutes for wholesome food.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">At issue long, as oft the case,</div> - <div class="verse">The war of words to peace gave place.</div> - <div class="verse">In truth the visionary Whang</div> - <div class="verse">Ceas’d now entirely to harangue</div> - <div class="verse">On this dear theme:—he hated <i>doubt</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">And Kate had many, staunch and stout:</div> - <div class="verse">And in a hostile muster, they</div> - <div class="verse">Gave her the better of the fray.</div> - <div class="verse">Though silent on his favourite theme,</div> - <div class="verse">He did resolve, when he <i>should</i> dream,</div> - <div class="verse">And <i>find</i> th’ anticipated pelf,</div> - <div class="verse">To <i>keep</i> the secret to <i>himself</i>;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> - <div class="verse">For he averr’d it “quite vexatious</div> - <div class="verse">His wife should be so pertinacious.”</div> - <div class="verse">No passions vain <i>her</i> heart misled:</div> - <div class="verse">The path of humble peace to tread</div> - <div class="verse">Was her sole aim; of this secure,</div> - <div class="verse">She felt content, nor sigh’d for more.</div> - <div class="verse">She griev’d to find her counsels failing,</div> - <div class="verse">They were sincere, though unavailing;</div> - <div class="verse">And oft midst wishes, fears, and sighs,</div> - <div class="verse">’Twas thus she would soliloquise:—</div> - <div class="verse">“My pretty window! that commands</div> - <div class="verse">Those meadows green, and wooded lands,</div> - <div class="verse">So sunny, that the latest ray</div> - <div class="verse">Its panes receive of parting day.</div> - <div class="verse">O! with what joy, when near it plac’d,</div> - <div class="verse">I’ve watch’d my husband homeward haste!</div> - <div class="verse">Or heard, from fair returning late,</div> - <div class="verse">The welcome sounds of ‘Holla, Kate!’</div> - <div class="verse">Through it I trace on every hand</div> - <div class="verse">Beauties, would grace a fairy-land,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> - <div class="verse">And think that, like a grateful eye,</div> - <div class="verse">It smiles on all beneath the sky.</div> - <div class="verse">There, too, my sweet geranium blows,</div> - <div class="verse">And mignionette, and crimson rose,</div> - <div class="verse">When all without is clad in snows.</div> - <div class="verse">I doubt me, if a princess feels</div> - <div class="verse">More joy than that which o’er me steals,</div> - <div class="verse">When light and morn my slumbers break,</div> - <div class="verse">And to this blissful scene I wake.</div> - <div class="verse">I cannot form a wish beside</div> - <div class="verse">What Heaven’s bounty has supplied,</div> - <div class="verse">Save that to Whang I could impart</div> - <div class="verse">The same content that fills my heart;</div> - <div class="verse">Yield him that thankful state of rest,</div> - <div class="verse">Or teach to <i>prize the good possess’d</i>.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Good fortune seldom comes too late;</div> - <div class="verse">For lo! at last indulgent Fate</div> - <div class="verse">Smil’d on the importunate swain,</div> - <div class="verse">And eas’d at length his anxious pain.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> - <div class="verse">Dreams—one,—two,—three,—th’ important number,</div> - <div class="verse">Omen’d him hence to quit his slumber,</div> - <div class="verse">With spade and mattock arm’d, to delve</div> - <div class="verse">Six feet—nay, I believe ’twas twelve,</div> - <div class="verse">Close by the long-forsaken mill—</div> - <div class="verse">He flies, the mission to fulfil!</div> - <div class="verse">The mattock rings, the spade descends,</div> - <div class="verse">The sturdy arm its vigour lends;</div> - <div class="verse">At such light labour who could sleep?</div> - <div class="verse">Whang is already three feet deep!</div> - <div class="verse">Upon the spade observe him smile:</div> - <div class="verse">What sees he?—what?—a broken tile;</div> - <div class="verse">The very tile his dream foretold,</div> - <div class="verse">A landmark to his pan of gold!</div> - <div class="verse">Upturns one token more—a bone!</div> - <div class="verse">And now, behold the broad flat stone!</div> - <div class="verse">A moment on its ample size</div> - <div class="verse">He gaz’d with wide distended eyes—</div> - <div class="verse">“Beneath <i>that</i> is the pan!” he cries.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> - <div class="verse">“’Twas under such a stone as this</div> - <div class="verse">That neighbour Drowsypate found his.</div> - <div class="verse">So then, at last, my hopes are crown’d!</div> - <div class="verse">Come, then, let’s raise thee from the ground.”</div> - <div class="verse">But, ere to lift the stone he tries,</div> - <div class="verse">He shook his head, not over wise,</div> - <div class="verse">And, with a self-approving glance,</div> - <div class="verse">One foot a little in advance,</div> - <div class="verse">With nose and lip contemptuous curl’d,</div> - <div class="verse">That said, “A fig for all the world!”</div> - <div class="verse">He cried, “My wife, she, silly trot!</div> - <div class="verse">Shall never know the wealth I’ve got:</div> - <div class="verse">To punish her I made a <i>vow</i>;</div> - <div class="verse">The time is come, I’ll keep it now.</div> - <div class="verse">She could not dream, poor fool! not she;</div> - <div class="verse">Some trite old tale of ‘busy bee,’</div> - <div class="verse">Of saving pins, and pence, and groats,</div> - <div class="verse">For ever occupied <i>her</i> thoughts.</div> - <div class="verse">Besides, the hussey laugh’d outright</div> - <div class="verse">Whene’er I pass’d a dreamless night.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> - <div class="verse">Yes, yes, I will requite her scorn;</div> - <div class="verse">She’ll rue it, sure as she is born!”——</div> - <div class="verse">Ah, bootless boast! the stone so great</div> - <div class="verse">Exceeds by far his strength in weight.</div> - <div class="verse">In vain he digs and delves the ground,</div> - <div class="verse">And clears away the rubbish round,</div> - <div class="verse">And gathering strength with his vexation,</div> - <div class="verse">Widens the fearful excavation.</div> - <div class="verse">He cannot move the stone for life;</div> - <div class="verse">So forc’d at last, he calls his wife,</div> - <div class="verse">Imparts the fact so long repress’d,</div> - <div class="verse">And glads, reluctantly, her breast.</div> - <div class="verse">The news he stated wak’d her fear;</div> - <div class="verse">What gave delight at first to hear,</div> - <div class="verse">One apprehension turn’d to pain—</div> - <div class="verse">She trembled for her husband’s brain.</div> - <div class="verse">“Can it be true?” cried she, misdeeming;</div> - <div class="verse">“Dear Whang, too surely thou <i>art dreaming</i>:</div> - <div class="verse">Try, recollect thyself, good man—”</div> - <div class="verse">“Tut, hussey! why, I’ll shew the pan:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> - <div class="verse">Only a minute’s help I ask,</div> - <div class="verse">And thou shalt see’t—a trifling task</div> - <div class="verse">Just to remove, I know not what,</div> - <div class="verse">A stone, it may be, from the spot.</div> - <div class="verse">Come, come, thy hand.” They gain the door,</div> - <div class="verse">When, turning, Kate asks, “<i>Are you sure?</i>”</div> - <div class="verse">“<i>Sure? yes</i>,” vociferates her spouse.</div> - <div class="verse">This said, they issue from the house—</div> - <div class="verse">“I’m <i>certain</i>, as to all I’ve told,</div> - <div class="verse">As if e’en <i>now</i> I <i>touch’d</i> the <i>gold</i>:</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Sure</i> as that I no more will bear</div> - <div class="verse">This russet doublet now to wear:—</div> - <div class="verse">That I no more will condescend</div> - <div class="verse">To own Ralph Roughspeech for <i>my friend</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Nor tolerate the pert monition</div> - <div class="verse">Of neighbours, in my chang’d condition:</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Sure</i>—but, ye Powers! what do I see?—</div> - <div class="verse">The mill! the mill!—Oh! woe is me!</div> - <div class="verse">My only stay, my certain aid,</div> - <div class="verse">All level with the earth is laid!——</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> - <div class="verse">Presumptuous! I have scorn’d my fate,</div> - <div class="verse">And wrought this mischief: all too late</div> - <div class="verse">The error of my life I see,</div> - <div class="verse">And misery my portion be.</div> - <div class="verse">Time, that no more I may recal,</div> - <div class="verse">By wise men priz’d, and dear to all,</div> - <div class="verse">How have I squander’d! how abus’d!</div> - <div class="verse">My friends, my neighbours, basely us’d!</div> - <div class="verse">How shall I bear, acquaintance meeting,</div> - <div class="verse">Scorn to behold where once was greeting?</div> - <div class="verse">Now comes <i>their</i> turn to treat the fool</div> - <div class="verse">With jeers, contempt, and ridicule.</div> - <div class="verse">Laugh’d at on all sides—and to know</div> - <div class="verse">And <i>feel</i> I have <i>deserv’d</i> the blow!</div> - <div class="verse">Undone by mine own discontent!—</div> - <div class="verse">But ah! too late I do repent.</div> - <div class="verse">Forc’d now in poverty to roam,</div> - <div class="verse">I soon must quit this quiet home;</div> - <div class="verse">And where with thee, poor Kate! to fly?—</div> - <div class="verse">Oh! I could lay me down and die!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> - <div class="verse">Wretch that I am! Kate, Kate, forgive!”</div> - <div class="verse">“<i>My</i> pardon, dearest Whang, receive:</div> - <div class="verse">But ’twas not <i>I</i> who gave thee health,</div> - <div class="verse">Strength, talent to improve thy wealth;</div> - <div class="verse">Who cast thy lot in such fair land,</div> - <div class="verse">Or bless’d thee with such liberal hand.</div> - <div class="verse">O! turn to <i>Him</i> with thankful prayer</div> - <div class="verse">Who deigns e’en yet thy life to spare;</div> - <div class="verse">Implore His pardon—kneel with me;</div> - <div class="verse">This ruin might have cover’d <i>thee</i>.</div> - <div class="verse">But thou art spar’d, and yet remain</div> - <div class="verse">The means our livelihood to gain:</div> - <div class="verse">A heartfelt willing perseverance</div> - <div class="verse">Will mend our lot before a year hence.</div> - <div class="verse">Thou knowest well that neighbour Ralph</div> - <div class="verse">Each morn will spare an hour or half</div> - <div class="verse">To help us to repair the mill.”</div> - <div class="verse">“Doest think,” Whang blushing ask’d, “he will?”</div> - <div class="verse">“Yes, yes, I do believe so too,</div> - <div class="verse">He was a neighbour kind and true;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> - <div class="verse">And if his counsels gave offence,</div> - <div class="verse">The fault was in my want of sense.</div> - <div class="verse">Yet, ideot! I”—“Enough!” cried Kate,</div> - <div class="verse">Exulting in her alter’d mate;</div> - <div class="verse">“To see our faults in their just light,</div> - <div class="verse">Is next akin to acting right.</div> - <div class="verse">But time no longer let us waste;</div> - <div class="verse">I’ll to friend Roughspeech quickly haste:</div> - <div class="verse">Own thou, meanwhile,” she smiling cried,</div> - <div class="verse">“To have a help-mate in thy bride</div> - <div class="verse">Is <i>treasure perhaps</i> of equal worth</div> - <div class="verse">With <i>aught conceal’d beneath the earth</i>.”</div> - <div class="verse">With look of conscious proud delight,</div> - <div class="verse">She caught the sound of, “Kate, thou’rt right;”</div> - <div class="verse">While a “small voice” responsive join’d</div> - <div class="verse">Applausive music in her mind.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then turn’d she from the yawning ground,</div> - <div class="verse">And, eying Whang with thought profound,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> - <div class="verse">Saw in his look, on her that bent,</div> - <div class="verse">A meaning most intelligent.</div> - <div class="verse">A wish defin’d she saw, and knelt;</div> - <div class="verse">Beside her soon his form she felt:</div> - <div class="verse">Then, with join’d hands uplift in air,</div> - <div class="verse">Burst from their lips the ardent prayer.</div> - <div class="verse">With brighter hopes from earth they rose,</div> - <div class="verse">Nor long (—for so the story goes)</div> - <div class="verse">In idle wailings spent the day:</div> - <div class="verse">Just then a neighbour pass’d that way.—</div> - <div class="verse">Whang turn’d his head; a crimson streak</div> - <div class="verse">Rush’d hastily across his cheek,</div> - <div class="verse">And Cath’rine’s palpitating breast</div> - <div class="verse">A momentary shame confess’d:</div> - <div class="verse">For well they knew, Old Robin’s tale</div> - <div class="verse">Soon through the village would prevail,</div> - <div class="verse">And bring a host about their ears,</div> - <div class="verse">With pity some, and some with jeers.</div> - <div class="verse">But <i>guilt</i> and <i>folly</i> must endure</div> - <div class="verse">The <i>caustics</i> that effect a cure.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> - <div class="verse">Whang therefore strove, with patient heart,</div> - <div class="verse">To bear th’ anticipated smart;</div> - <div class="verse">Nor vainly strove: the threaten’d ill</div> - <div class="verse">Fell, he with patience met it still.</div> - <div class="verse">Few in the morning of his grief</div> - <div class="verse">Or gave, or proffer’d him relief.</div> - <div class="verse">Those who had <i>counsell’d heretofore</i>,</div> - <div class="verse">Excus’d themselves from doing more,</div> - <div class="verse">“Presuming nothing <i>they</i> could offer</div> - <div class="verse">Would meet acceptance from the scoffer.”</div> - <div class="verse">Others, meanwhile, of nature good,</div> - <div class="verse">Assisted, comforted, withstood</div> - <div class="verse">With honest scorn the worldling’s cant,</div> - <div class="verse">Nor shunn’d a neighbour, though in want.</div> - <div class="verse">To all, Whang bore an humble mien,</div> - <div class="verse">By all, his contrite spirit’s seen;</div> - <div class="verse">Till even they who smil’d at first,</div> - <div class="verse">When o’er his head the tempest burst,</div> - <div class="verse">Were forc’d, in justice, to declare</div> - <div class="verse">His penitence <i>appear’d sincere</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> - <div class="verse">“They trusted, nay, <i>almost believ’d</i></div> - <div class="verse">His loss of character retriev’d:”</div> - <div class="verse">And, soften’d by his chang’d address,</div> - <div class="verse">“Good fortune <i>wish’d</i>, and happiness.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And he <i>was</i> happy—“he was bless’d</div> - <div class="verse">Beyond desert,” he oft confessed,</div> - <div class="verse">By friends, by all the good caress’d.</div> - <div class="verse">A smiling garden, rescu’d mill,</div> - <div class="verse">His dear old cottage on the hill,</div> - <div class="verse">A faithful wife, a conscience clear,</div> - <div class="verse">Shed brightness on each coming year.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The church-yard stone, that bears his name,</div> - <div class="verse">Records his failing and his fame;</div> - <div class="verse">And, in his life and death, conveys</div> - <div class="verse">A moral truth to future days.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage">FINIS.</p> - -<hr /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> - -<img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="" /> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="verse">Burst from their lips the ardent prayer.</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="right"><a href="#Page_28"><i>Page 28.</i></a></p> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> - -<img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="" /> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="verse">’Tis lucky that I have my health.</div> - <div class="verse">Since this poor mill is all my wealth:</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="right"><a href="#Page_12"><i>Page 12.</i></a></p> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> - -<img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="" /> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="verse">At eve before the cottage-door.</div> - <div class="verse">They talk’d the wondrous story o’er;</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="right"><a href="#Page_14"><i>Page 14.</i></a></p> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> - -<img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="" /> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="verse">My pretty window! that commands</div> - 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