A team of horses, with a ponderous freight

Pressing behind, adown a rugged slope,

Whose sharp descent confounded their array,

Came at that moment, ringing noisily.

"Here," said the Pastor, "do we muse, and mourn

The waste of death; and lo! the giant oak

Stretched on his bier—that massy timber wain;

Nor fail to note the Man who guides the team."

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He was a peasant of the lowest class: