The Widow’s lowly home: The Soldier’s HEIR;

The proud inheritor of Heav’n’s best gifts—

The mind unshackled—and the guiltless Soul!

THE
SHEPHERD’s DOG.

I.

A Shepherd’s Dog there was; and he

Was faithful to his master’s will,

For well he lov’d his company,

Along the plain or up the hill;

All Seasons were, to him, the same