THE IDLE SHEPHERD BOYS. Seeing that he should lose the prize, Said Walter then, "Your task is here, "Cross, if you dare, where I shall cross-Come on, and in my footsteps tread!" The other took him at his word, And followed as he led. It was a spot which you may see If ever you to Langdale go; Into a chasm a mighty block Hath fallen, and made a bridge of rock: The gulf is deep below; And in a basin black and small, Receives a lofty waterfall. With staff in hand across the cleft When list! he hears a piteous moan- And, looking down, espies A lamb, that in the pool is pent The lamb had slipt into the stream, His dam had seen him when he fell, She saw him down the torrent borne, 443 And while, with all a mother's love, The lamb, still swimming round and round, When he had learn'd what thing it was, And there the helpless lamb he found He drew it gently from the pool, And brought it forth into the light: The shepherds met him with his charge, An unexpected sight! Into their arms the lamb they took, Said they, "He's neither maim'd nor scarr'd.” And placed him at his mother's side; Those idle shepherd boys upbraid, And bade them better mind their trade. Page Christian's Progress, the, Churchyard Scene, Churchyard, Sun-dial in a, City Child's Complaint, the, Comforter, God the only, Complaint of Nature, the, Condition of Kings Human, Conscience, William Lisle Bowles, Close of the Week, a Child's Hymn for the, James Hogg, Thomas Moore, Nature, the, . 130 317 . 331 112 . 327 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 112 Nathaniel P. Willis, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 291 136 John Wilson, 413 Henry Kirke White, . 125 John Wilson, 410 257 313 . 112 . 117 95 Robert Southwell, 7 Thomas Dale, · 165 Beaumont and Fletcher, 215 James Gates Percival, 189 Alexander Pope, .355 Thomas Parnell, 52 Thomas K. Hervey, 416 Sir John Denham, 376 Country Life, Retirement of, Country Sports, Country, Virtue and Happiness in the, James Thomson, Sir Henry Wotton, Michael Bruce, Alexander Pope, 381 252 Abraham Cowley, 378 Isaac Watts, 49 Krummacher, 176 James Montgomery, 106 Isaac Watts, 50 Creator, Hymn to the, DANCE, the Children's, . Dawnings of Genius, John Milton, 30 Robert Southey, Death, Robert Blair, Death, Robert Nicoll, . 114 |