...widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends besides the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn, She only left of all the harmless...

...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless...

...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless...

...widow 'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn.; She only left of all the harmless...

...bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...

...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless...

...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless...

...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the...

...site of his school-house; and * Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, *' The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches * * near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses)...

...Reflect, and think ho* many pine in want and wretchedness '. — Think how many > - < ' Fore'd in ajce, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick the wint'ry fagot from the thorn, To seek the nightly shed, and weep till monr!* As I pursued my walk...