"A Scene near Hogsnorton.

"A ditch frequented much by water-rats,

With velvet-headed rushes borderèd;

Two little boys who fish for tittlebats

With sticks, and crooked pins, and bits of thread;

Three willow trees that stand with drooping boughs

Upon the banks, and look disconsolate;

A bull that flings his tail up as he lows—