 WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2571819Full view - About this book
 | Royal Society of New Zealand - Science - 1908 - 710 pages
...gallop of verse "), as — When Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom bold. And again, both halves of such a stanza may further be resolved into four-syllabled leonines, as — With... | |
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