By Hands unseen are show’rs of Violets found;
The Redbreast loves to build and warble there,
And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.
To some readers they may appear to be an imitation of the following in Collins’s “Dirge in Cymbeline:”
“The female fays shall haunt the green,
“And dress thy grave with pearly dew;
“The redbreast oft, at evening hours,
“Shall kindly lend his little aid,
“With hoary moss and gather’d flow’rs,
“To deck the ground where thou art laid.”