The parting hint - a Farmer could not please:
’Tis true she had without abhorrence seen
Young Harry Carr, when he was smart and clean:
But, to be married - be a farmer’s wife -
A slave! a drudge! - she could not for her life.
With swimming eyes the fretful nymph withdrew,
And, deeply sighing, to her chamber flew;
There on her knees, to Heaven she grieving pray’d
For change of prospect to a tortured maid.
Harry, a youth whose late-departed sire