When, trembling, weak, she gains her cottage low,

Where magpies scatter notes of presage wide,

Some one shall tell, while tears in torrents flow,

That, just when twilight dimm'd the green hill's side,

Far in his lonely sheil her hapless shepherd died.

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Let these sad strains to lighter sounds give place!

Bid thy brisk viol warble measures gay!

For see! recall'd by thy resistless lay,

Once more the Brownie shews his honest face.