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ard is the fate of the infirm and poor!) Here craving for a morsel of their bread, A pampered menial drove me from the door, To seek a shelter in the humble shed. O, take me to your hospitable dome, Keen blows the wind, and piercing is the cold! Short is my passage to the friendly tomb, For I am poor and miserably old. Should I reveal the source of every grief, If soft humanity e'er touched your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity could not be repressed. Heaven sends misfortunes,--why should we repine? 'T is Heaven has brought me to the state you see: And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then, like the lark, I sprightly hailed the morn; But ah! oppression forced me from my cot; My cattle died, and blighted was my corn. My daughter,--once the comfort of my age! Lured by a villain from her native home, Is cast, abandoned, on the world's wild stage, And doomed in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife,--sweet soother of my care!-- Struck with sad anguish at the stern decree, Fell,--lingering fell, a victim to despair, And left the world to wretchedness and me. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man! Whose trembling limbs have born him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, O, give relief, and Heaven will bless your store. THOMAS MOSS. A ROUGH RHYME ON A ROUGH MATTER. THE ENGLISH GAME LAWS. The merry brown hares came leaping Over, the crest of the hill, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping, Under the moonlight still. Leaping late and early, Till under their bite and their tread, The swedes, and the wheat, and the barley Lay cankered, and trampled, and dead. A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, Where, under the gloom of fire-woods, One spot in the lea throve rank. She watched a long tuft of clover, Where rabbit or hare never ran, For its black sour haulm covered over The blood of a murdered man. She thought of the dark plantation, And the hares, and her husband's blood, And the voice of her indignation Rose up to the throne of God: "I am long past wailing and whining, I have wept too much in my life: I've had twenty years of pining As an English laborer's wife. "A laborer in Christian England, Where they cant of a Saviour's name, And yet wast
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