For Hollybrand could not refrain, and wept:

The last “good night,” with intermissive sighs,

Fell from their lips; while ’kerchiefs to their eyes

Detain’d their tears: Such was the dreary eve

Of that lone day when “Jenny” took her leave.

XIV.

Red ’rose the sun, and flush’d the fleecy sky;

His ’fulgent rays foretold the hour was nigh

When soon the cottagers would ope their eye,

For chanticleer had loos’d his horny bill,