Chapter 40 No.40

At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,note

'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay,

All Nature's children feel the matin spring

Of life reviving, with reviving day;

5 And while yon little bark glides down the bay,

Wafting the stranger on his way again,

Morn's genial influence roused a minstrel gray,note

And sweetly