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...sky was overcast, Ah would that this might be the last! My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, _, I see thee daily weaker grow — 'Twas my distress...store, . For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for...

...well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast, Ah would that this might be the last ! TMy Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow — 'Twas niy distress that brought thee low, >• My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless...

...twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast, Ah would that this might be the last! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow— My Alary! Tw as my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For...

...well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah would that this might be the last ! My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily...restless heretofore, Now rust disus'd, and shine no more; For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not...

...overcast, Ah would that this might be the last '. My Alary Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see them daily weaker grow — 'Twas my distress that brought...wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, T ly sight now seconds n-.t thy will, My Mary! S29 But well thou play'dst the housewife's part, And...

...twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast, Ah would that this might be the last ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily...— 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary I Thy needles, once a shining store ! For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disus'd, and shine...

...effect of your Lordship's interesting and affecting associations with Mrs. Uimin's needles. Cowper's "' Thy NEEDLES, once a shining store, For my sake restless, heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, MY MART. " My ' STOCKING?,' oh, departed friend ! My ' SHIRT,' that I so...

...well nigh pass'd, Since first our sky was overcast, Ah, would that this might be the last ! My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily...low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For ray sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, My Mary ! For though thou gladly...

...from another poem of Cowper's, to be compared with the same writer's Sylvan Sampler. In the lines to Mary, " Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, My Mary," contain a simple, household, " indoor," artificial, and ordinary...