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The Widow's Cottage--Blind Ellen one--Hers not the Sorrows or
Adventures of Heroines--What these are, first described--Deserted
Wives; rash Lovers; courageous Damsels: in desolated Mansions; in
grievous Perplexity--These Evils, however severe, of short Duration-
-Ellen's Story--Her Employment in Childhood--First Love; first
Adventure; its miserable Termination--An Idiot Daughter--A Husband--
Care in Business without Success--The Man's Despondency and its
Effect--Their Children: how disposed of--One particularly
unfortunate--Fate of the Daughter
- Ellen keeps a School and is happy--becomes Blind; loses her
School--Her Consolations.
OBSERVE yon tenement, apart and small,
Where the wet pebbles shine upon the wall;
Where the low benches lean beside the door,
And the red paling bounds the space before;
Where thrift and lavender, and lad's-love bloom, -
That humble dwelling is the widow's home;
There live a pair, for various fortunes known,
But the blind EUen will relate her own; -
Yet ere we hear the story she can tell,
On prouder sorrows let us briefly dwell.
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