Broad Grins / Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those / Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and / Slippers."

by George Colman

THE WATER-FIENDS.

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On a wild Moor, all brown and bleak,

Where broods the heath-frequenting grouse,

There stood a tenement antique;

Lord Hoppergollop’s country house.

Here Silence reign’d, with lips of glue,

And undisturb’d maintain’d her law;

Save when the Owl cry’d “whoo! whoo! whoo!”

Or the hoarse Crow croak’d “caw! caw! caw!”