_There gentle music melts on every spray_ 24 _Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around_ 27 THE DESERTED VILLAGE. _The never-failing brook, the busy mill_ 32 _The shelter’d cot, the cultivated farm_ 33 _And many a gambol frolick’d o’er the ground_ 34 _The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest_ 35 _Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew_ 37 _The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung_ 38 _And fill’d each pause the nightingale had made_ 39 _To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn_ 40 _The village preacher’s modest mansion rose_ 41 _Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride_ 42 _At church, with meek and unaffected grace_ 43 _Low lies that house, where nut-brown draughts inspir’d_ 45 _No more the farmer’s news, the barber’s tale_ 45 _Space for his lake, his park’s extended bounds_ 48 _Where the poor houseless, shivering female lies_ 50 _Her modest looks the cottage might adorn_ 51 _Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey_ 52 _The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green_ 53 _And left a lover’s for a father’s arms_ 54 _Downward they move, a melancholy band_ 56 THE HERMIT. _Then turn, to-night, and freely share whate’er my cell bestows_ 58 _The hermit trimm’d his little fire, and cheer’d his pensive guest_ 61 _And when, beside me in the dale; he caroll’d lays of love_ 64 THE CAPTIVITY. _Ye hills of Lebanon, with cedars crown’d_ 69 _Fierce is the tempest rolling along the furrow’d main_ 74 _As panting flies the hunted hind, where brooks refreshing stray_ 80 _O Babylon! how art thou fall’n_ 83 THE HAUNCH OF VENISON 90 THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION 102 AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG 109 THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS 116 ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND BY LIGHTNING 125 SONG--“THE THREE PIGEONS” 130 BIRDS 142 EPILOGUE WRITTEN FOR MR. CHARLES LEE LEWES 162 _The Ornamental Illustrations designed by_ H. NOEL HUMPHREYS [Illustration: THE TRAVELLER] DEDICATION.