He saw the cottage he must tread no more,

And sighed that man should be so stern to man;

Two harnessed palfreys stood beside the door,

And by the windows busy movement ran;

Then did his eyes the village downs explore,

Ere yet the labors of the day began;

But all still slept, save where the watch-dog bayed,

Or lowed the kine and cropt the dewy glade.

[V.]

And many a field new traces of the plough,