Author Note: In Finland there is a Castle which is called the New Rock, moated about with a river of unfounded depth, the water black and the fish therein
Robert Southey
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain
Author Note: The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which had really happened in the North of England. I have
Tho' now no more the musing ear
Come melancholy Moralizer--come!
Bright on the mountain's heathy slope
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal,
What! and not one to heave the pious sigh!
Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost
And I was once like this! that glowing cheek
A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,