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Of all the heretical and lawless talk

Which brought this judgment. So the youth was seized

And cast into that hole. My husband's father
Sobbed like a child-it almost broke his heart;
And once, as he was working in the cellar,
He hear❜d a voice distinctly; 'twas the youth's,
Who sung a doleful song about green fields,
How sweet it were on lake or wild savannah
To hunt for food, and be a naked man,
And wander up and down at liberty.

He always doted on the youth, and now
His love grew desperate; and defying death,
He made that cunning entrance I described;
And the young man escaped.

MARIA.

'Tis a sweet tale :

Such as would lull a listening child to sleep,
His rosy face besoiled with unwiped tears.-

And what became of him?

FOSTER-MOTHER. :

He went on ship-board,

With those bold voyagers who made discovery

Of golden lands. Leoni's youngest brother
Went likewise; and when he returned to Spain,
He told Leoni, that the poor mad youth,

Soon after they arrived in that new world,
In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat,
And, all alone, set sail by silent moonlight
Up a great river, great as any sea,

And ne'er was heard of more; but 'tis supposed,

He lived and died among the savage men.

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POEMS

OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS

OR

FEELINGS CONNECTED WITH THEM.

WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed

Great nations, how ennobling thoughts depart
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed

I had, my country! Am I to be blamed?
But, when I think of Thee, and what Thou art,

Verily, in the bottom of my heart,

Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed.

But dearly must we prize thee; we who find

In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled. What wonder if a poet, now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a Lover or a Child.

WORDSWORTH.

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