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FIDELITY.

There, sometimes, doth the leaping fish
Send through the tarn a lonely cheer;
The crag repeats the raven's croak,

In symphony austere ;

Thither the rainbow comes,-the cloud,—
And mists that spread the flying shroud;
And sunbeams, and the sounding blast,
That, if it could, would hurry past;
But that enormous barrier binds it fast.

Not free from boding thoughts, awhile
The shepherd stood; then makes his way
Towards the dog, o'er rocks and stones,
As quickly as he may;

Nor far had gone before he found
A human skeleton on the ground!
Th' appall'd discoverer, with a sigh,
Looks round to learn the history.

From those abrupt and perilous rocks

The man had fall'n,—that place of fear!

At length, upon the shepherd's mind

It breaks, and all is clear:

He instantly recall'd the name,

And who he was, and whence he came;

Remember'd, too, the very day

On which the traveller pass'd this way.

But hear a wonder, for whose sake

This lamentable tale I tell!

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FIDELITY.

A lasting monument of words

This wonder merits well.

The dog, which still was hovering nigh,
Repeating the same timid cry,—

This dog had been, through three months' space,

A dweller in that savage place.

Yes, proof was plain, that since that day,

When this ill-fated traveller died,

The dog had watch'd about the spot,

Or by his master's side:

How nourish'd here through such long time,

He knows, who gave that love sublime;
And gave that strength of feeling, great
Above all human estimate.

WORDSWORTH.

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