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 For by the hand he took them, and
 * Remarked in accents smooth :

One thing I ask. Be mine the task
 * These stricken babes to soothe!

My country home is really charming: I'll teach them all the joys of farming."



One halcyon week they fished his creek,
 * And watched him do the chores,

In haylofts hid, and, shouting, slid
 * Down sloping cellar doors:—

Because this life to bliss was equal The more distressing is the sequel.