The poems and literary prose of Alexander Wilson ... for the first time fully collected and compared with the original and early editions ... edited ... by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart ... with portrait, illustrations, &c |
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As when, by play retarded, past his hour,
The scampering school-boy ventures to the door;
With throbbing breast lists to the busy noise,
And starts to hear the master's awful voice;
Oft sighs and looks, now offers to burst in,
Now backwards shrinks, and dreads a smarting skin;
Till desp'rate grown, by fear detain'd more late,
He lifts the latch, and boldly meets his fate:
The scampering school-boy ventures to the door;
With throbbing breast lists to the busy noise,
And starts to hear the master's awful voice;
Oft sighs and looks, now offers to burst in,
Now backwards shrinks, and dreads a smarting skin;
Till desp'rate grown, by fear detain'd more late,
He lifts the latch, and boldly meets his fate:
| The poems and literary prose of Alexander Wilson | |