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226 ANCIENT SONG&<br />

No future joy his heart could tafle,<br />

No future comfort knovve. |2q<br />

So withers on the mountain top<br />

A fair and {lately oake,<br />

Wli<strong>of</strong>e vigorous arms are torne away,.<br />

By fome rude thunder-ftroke.<br />

At length his caflle irkfome grew, 185<br />

He loathes his wonted home<br />

His native country he forfakes<br />

In foreign lands to roame.<br />

There up and downe he wandered far,<br />

Clad in a palmer's gowne ;<br />

Till his brown locks grew white as wool,<br />

His beard as thiftle downe.<br />

At length, all wearied, down in death<br />

He laid his reverend head.<br />

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igo<br />

Meantime amid the lonely wilds 195<br />

His little fon was bred.<br />

There the wei'rd lady <strong>of</strong> the woods<br />

Had borne him far away,<br />

And train'd him up in feates <strong>of</strong> armes,<br />

And every martial play. 200<br />

II. St.

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