And well for them if they’re as good’s the last!

“George Hollybrand”—they almost learn’d to speak,

But now he’s gone they’re doubly dumb and meek.

Ten hours were told; Jane listens to the wind,

Whose genial breathings thus impress’d her mind:

She fondly fancied that the breeze would bear

The far-off rumbling to her anxious ear;

’Twas not in vain—her fancy served her well,

As now the favouring winds bore up the vale

The welcome sound. Ah! who her joy could tell?—