No Lordly home, no bed of state!

But on a pallet, clean and low,

They hear, unmov’d, the wild winds blow,

And though they ne’er another spring may see,

The Shepherd, and his Dog, are chearful company.

THE
FUGITIVE.

Oft have I seen yon Solitary Man

Pacing the upland meadow. On his brow

Sits melancholy, mark’d with decent pride,

As it would fly the busy, taunting world,