MARY OF CAMBRIA.—A SONNET.

(For the Mirror.)

There was a maiden once would come and sit

Upon our mountain, the long summer day;

And watch'd the sun, till he had beauteous lit

The mist-envelop'd rocks of Mona grey:

Beneath whose base, the timid hinds would say,

Her lover perish'd; and from that dread hour,

Bereft of reason's mind ennobling ray,