Synopsis

And these would sometimes come, and cheer The widow with a song, To let her feel a neighbor near, And wing an hour along. A pond, supplied by hidden springs, With lilies bordered round, Was found among the richest things, That blessed the widow's ground. She had, besides, a gentle brook, That wound the meadow through, Which from the pond its being took, And had its treasures too. Her eldest orphan was a son; For, children she had three; She called him, though a little one,