THE FOSTER-MOTHERS TALE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
,
s of many things:
And to pray
ith holy men, nor in a holy place--
But yet and s,
te Lord Velez neer h him.
And once, as by the Chapel
tood together, chained in deep discourse,
th such a groan,
t tottered, and had well-nigh fallen
Rigened;
A fever seized him, and he made confession
Of all tical and laalk
t: so th was seized
And cast into t her
Sobbed like a c almost broke :
And once as he cellar,
inctly; ths,
green ?elds,
it were on lake or wild savannah,
to for food, and be a naked man,
And liberty.
ed on th, and now
e; and defying death,
cunning entrance I described:
And the young man escaped.
MARIA.
tis a s tale:
Sucening co sleep,
ears.--
And w became of him?
FOStER-MOthER.
on ship-board
ithose bold voyagers, who made discovery
Of golden lands. Leonis younger brother
ent likeo Spain,
old Leoni, t th,
Soon after t new world,
In spite of ,
And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight
Up a great river, great as any sea,
And neer is supposed,
he savage men.