What lamentable change, a year—a month—

May bring; that brook converting as it runs

Into an instrument of deadly bane

For those, who, yet untempted to forsake

The simple occupations of their sires,

Drink the pure water of its innocent stream

With lip almost as pure.—Domestic bliss

(Or call it comfort, by a humbler name,)

How art thou blighted for the poor Man's heart!

Lo! in such neighbourhood, from morn to eve,