Needwood Forest

Transcriber’s Note:
New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.
LICHFIELD:
Printed by John Jackson, M.DCC.LXXVI.
Needwood! if e’er my early voice
Hath taught thy echoes to rejoice;
If e’er my hounds in opening cry
Have fill’d thy banks with ecstacy;
If e’er array’d in cheerful green
Our train hath deck’d thy wintry scene;
Ere yet thy wood-wild walks I leave,
My tributary verse receive: