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 DEPARTURE OF MRS. HANNAH MORE FROM BARLEY WOOD.

��IT was a lovely scene, That cottage 'mid the trees, And peerless England's shaven green,

Peep'd, their interstices between, While in each sweet recess, and grotto wild, Nature convers'd with art, or on her labours smil'd.

It seem'd a parting hour, And she whose hand had made That spot so beautiful with woven shade

And aromatic shrub and flower, Turn'd her from those haunts away, Tho' spring relum'd each charm, and fondly woo'd her stay.

Yon mansion teems with legends for the heart : There her lov'd sisters circled round her side, To share in all her toils a part,

There, too, with gentle sigh

Each laid her down to die : Methinks, their beckoning phantoms glide,

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