...the turret grey, And skim the dell, While leaves from Autumn's sapless spray Down rustling fell. And on a thorn, that widely spread Its moss-grown, lowly bending head, Where long the winter storm had shed Its baneful power, And oft returning summer clad In leaf and flower ; A redbreast...

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...old Dundonald's hills I lay, And watehed the landseape fade away; The owl eome from the turret gray, And skim the dell, While leaves from autumn's sapless...had shed Its baneful power, And oft returning summer elad In leaf and flower; A redbreast sang of sunshine gone, And dreary winter eoming on: What thongh...