Which canopies the church-yard stile,

Forc’d from his master’s company,

The faithful Trim would mope awhile;

For then his master’s only care

Was the loud Psalm, or fervent Pray’r,

And, ’till the throng the church-yard path retrod,

The Shepherd’s patient guard, lay silent on the sod.

VIII.

Near their small hovel stood a tree,

Where Trim was ev’ry morning found—