To tend the sheep and kine.'"

Ed.





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THE WAGGONER [A]


Composed 1805.--Published 1819


[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. The characters and story from fact.--I.
F.]


"In Cairo's crowded streets
The impatient Merchant, wondering, waits in vain,
And Mecca saddens at the long delay."

THOMSON. [B]