Cowper uses the word dray with reference to the same animal:
"Chined like a squirrel to his dray."
"A Fable," Southey's Edit. viii. 312.
What is the correct meaning of this word? Richardson, from Barrett, says, "a dray or sledde, which goeth without wheels." And adds, "also applied to a carriage with low, heavy wheels, dragged heavily along, as a brewer's dray."
He then quotes the passage from Cowper, containing the above line.
F. B. RELTON.
166. Son of the Morning.—
"Son of the morning, rise! approach you here!
Come—but molest not yon defenceless urn:
Look on this spot—a nation's sepulchre!