[233] At each end of the town.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

I.

When now (that morn) Aurora ope’d the course,

And Sol strode forth, eight charmers bid discourse;

Their firstling-notes, borne on the balmy breeze,

Bestirr’d the rooks in the adjacent trees;

“Ring, ting, ting, tong, this is our song,”—say they—

To rouse ye sleepers for the holiday:

A thousand flues erst wind their dingy smoke;