For this poor crawling helpless wretch Inch-thick the dust lay on the ground, It chanced that Andrew passed that way Just at the time; and there he found The Cripple in the mid-day heat Standing alone, and at his feet He saw the penny on the ground. VOL. II. He stooped and took the penny up: And so, my friend, good day to you." And hence I said, that Andrew's boys Will all be trained to waste and pillage; And wished the press-gang, or the drum With its tantara sound, would come And sweep him from the village! RUTH. When Ruth was left half desolate Her Father took another Mate ; And she had made a Pipe of straw, And from that oaten Pipe could draw All sounds of winds and floods; Had built a Bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An Infant of the woods, |