Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851 / 2008-07-27 00:00:00
EBOOK POEMS, &C. (1790) ***
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POEMS, &c.
POEMS;
WHEREIN IT IS ATTEMPTED TO DESCRIBE
CERTAIN VIEWS OF NATURE
AND OF
RUSTIC MANNERS;
AND ALSO,
TO POINT OUT, IN SOME INSTANCES, THE DIFFERENT INFLUENCE WHICH THE SAME
CIRCUMSTANCES PRODUCE ON DIFFERENT CHARACTERS.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
MDCCXC.
A WINTER DAY.
The cock, warm roosting 'midst his feather'd dames,
Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air,
Stretches his neck and claps his heavy wings,
Gives three hoarse crows, and glad his talk is done;
Low, chuckling, turns himself upon the roost,
Then nestles down again amongst his mates.
The lab'ring hind, who on his bed of straw,
Beneath his home-made coverings, coarse, but warm,
Lock'd in the kindly arms of her who spun them,
Dreams of the gain that next year's crop should bring;
Or at some fair disposing of his wool,
Or by some lucky and unlook'd-for bargain.
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