“Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, 105

Mutt’ring his wayward fancies he would rove;

Now drooping woeful-wan, like one forlorn,

Or craz’d with care, or cross’d in hopeless love.

“One morn I miss’d him on the custom’d hill,

Along the heath, and near his fav’rite tree; 110

Another came; nor yet beside the rill,

Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he;

“The next, with dirges due in sad array,

Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne:—