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...OR THE INFLUENCES OF NATURE WHEN Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, 5 In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw...

...thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods; Had built a bower upon the green, 10 As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seem'd...

...thoughtless freedom, bold. 10 And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been 1 5 An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seem'd to live ; her thoughts her...

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...; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind. iii Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...[Composed 1799,-PubIished 1800.1 When Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...in the wind. (1799) RUTH1 WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, ' And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...gallop of verse "), as — When Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom bold. And again, both halves of such a stanza may further be resolved into four-syllabled leonines, as — With...