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340 From cups replenished by his joyous hand.

—Those seven fair Brothers variously were moved

Each by the thoughts best suited to his years:

But most of all and with most thankful mind

The hoary Grand-sire felt himself enriched;

A happiness that ebbed not, but remained

To fill the total measure of the soul!

—From the low tenement, his own abode,

Whither, as to a little private cell,

He had withdrawn from bustle, care, and noise,

To spend the Sabbath of old age in peace,

Once every day he duteously repaired

To rock the cradle of the slumbering Babe:

For in that female Infant's name he heard

The silent Name of his departed Wife;

Heart-stirring music! hourly heard that name;

Full blest he was, "Another Margaret Green,"

Oft did he say, "was come to Gold-rill side."

—Oh! pang unthought of, as the precious boon

Itself had been unlooked for;—oh! dire stroke

Of desolating anguish for them all!

—Just as the Child could totter on the floor,

And, by some friendly finger's help upstayed,