Forth Arnold went: he listen’d, heard the clock—
The only sound within, then gave a knock:
He knock’d again: remained in deep suspense:
Went round the oak, on to the rearward fence:
There he beheld, with his unerring eye,
Jane Hollybrand! he spoke: thus her reply:—
“My father is at work, sir, in the field
Preparing there the fallow to be till’d;
And, sir, I’m sure he never will consent
For me to leave this humble tenement,—