She was trained in Nature's school,

Nature had blest her.

A waking eye, a prying mind,

A heart that stirs, is hard to bind:

A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind,

Ye could not Hester."

Charles Lamb.

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883
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