For well I know the sound it made,

When, dashing o’er the stony rill,

It murmur’d to St. Osyth’s Mill.”

The Lass replied—“The trees are fled, 150

They’ve cut the brook a straighter bed:

No shades the present lords allow,

The miller only murmurs now;

The waters now his mill forsake,

And form a pond they call a lake.”—

“Then, lassie, lead thy grandsire on,