With scorching rays the landscape spread,

I mark’d thee, weaving fragrant flow’rs

To deck thy mother’s silent bed!

Nor, at the church-yard’s simple stone,

Wert, thou, poor Urchin, left alone.

XXII.

I follow’d thee, along the dale

And up the woodland’s shad’wy way:

I heard thee tell thy mournful tale

As slowly sunk the star of day: