labouring

By thy means women of their rest are barred,

Thou settst their labouring hands to spin and card.

All[206] could I bear; but that the wench should rise,

Where the long cloud, the long wood's counterpart,

Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill.

That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;

This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life's age.

Loud-striking village clock has counted four;

The labouring rustic hears his restless foe,

And weary, of his pains complaining sore,

In their prodigious ebb and flow.

The royal soul, that, like the labouring moon,

By charms of art was hurried down,

And left its sacred earth behind;

Nor murmuring groan expressed, nor labouring sound,

Nor any least tumultuous breath;

The author has, a little above, used an argument, much to the honour

of the Catholic church--her unceasing diligence in labouring for the

conversion of the heathen; a task, in which her missionaries have

As when the dove returning bore the mark

Of earth restored to the long-labouring ark,

The relics of mankind, secure of rest,