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21 Of carded wool which the old Man had piled

He laid his implements with gentle care,

Each in the other lock'd; and, down the path

Which from his cottage to the church-yard led,

He took his way, impatient to accost

The Stranger, whom he saw still lingering there.

'Twas one well known to him in former days,

A Shepherd-lad: who ere his thirteenth year

Had chang'd his calling, with the mariners

A fellow-mariner, and so had fared

Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd

Among the mountains, and he in his heart

Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas.

Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard

The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds

Of caves and trees; and when the regular wind

Between the tropics fill'd the steady sail

And blew with the same breath through days and weeks,

Lengthening invisibly its weary line