...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow awrty,...

...unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial-day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away; And turning from my nursery-window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu !" Sent afterwards to school, Cowper...

...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! — it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...

...sorrowing son, Wretch ev'n then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; \ Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — > Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. '_ I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hoarse that bore thee slow...

...just begun ? 1 fifty-two years 2 He was only six when she died. Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfell, answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...

...son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss: 25 Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss— Ah, that maternal smile! It answers— Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...

...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, Life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...

...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, Life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...

...sorrowing son, Wretch even then,' life's journey juet begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah that maternal smile ! it answer?, Yes. *This is in allusion to the lowness of spirits, owing; to disease, to "which, the poet...

...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps, thou gav'st m'e, though unf elt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that, maternal smile ! it answers 'Yes.' I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...