'If my heart by signs can tell,
Maiden, I have watched thee daily,
And I think thou lov'st me well.'
[P. 270.] Cary. Phoebe Cary wrote many parodies. One entitled The Wife is sometimes said to be a burlesque of Wordsworth:
Her washing ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And passed the long, long night away
In darning ragged hose.
But when the sun in all his state
Illumed the eastern skies,