Dejection: An Ode[1076:1]

[Vide ante, p. 362.]

[As first printed in the Morning Post, October 4, 1802.]

"Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon With the Old Moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my Master dear, We shall have a deadly storm."[1076:2] BALLAD OF SIR PATRICK SPENCE.