To studious ease, and generous cares,

And every chaste affection.

To all the nestling brood of thoughts

Sustained by chaste affection!

[39] 1827.

1815.

The wild wood's . . .


FOOTNOTES:

[Q] Newark Castle, a "large, square, roofless, ancient castle, scene of Sir Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, four miles west by north of Selkirk." (Wilson's Gazetteer of Scotland.)—Ed.