...life is fled : All but yon widow' d solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; The wretched matron forced in age for bread To strip the...brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn : She only left of all the harmless...

...of the village-master, and the site of his school-house, and Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, The liver creases spread. (and to this day the brook and ditches near the spot where her cabin stood abound with...

...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the pla&hy spring : She, wretched matron, pressed in age for bread. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread." The brook and ditches near where her cabin stood still furnish cresses, and several of her descendants...

...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, pressed in age for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread." The brook and ditches near where her cabin stood, still furnish cresses, and several of her descendants...

...example: But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; ....

...swears, he'll give me a green Gown, Oh dear! I fall adown, adown, adown\1 (John Gay, The Shepherd's Week] She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To...brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless...

...speaker encounters an old beggar-woman, who evidently reminds him of the real people who have gone: "She only left of all the harmless train, / The sad historian of the pensive plain" (lines 135 - 36). This last line is the key and was early recognized as such, being chosen for illustration...

...should not have met with the word 'shade,' on this occasion [Scott's note]. She wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shade, and weep till mom ; She only left of all the harmless...

...flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To...brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless...

...flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed, solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. (lines 128-32,...