MEADOWLEIGH.

A TALE OF ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "THE LADIES OF BEVER HOLLOW."

LONDON:

Printed by A. Schulze, 13, Poland Street.

MEADOWLEIGH.

CHAPTER I.

There, at her chamber-window high,
A lonely maiden sits;

Its casement fronts the western sky,

And balmy air admits.

Is it to watch the setting sun

She does that seat prefer?

Alas! the maiden thinks of one

Who never thinks of her.

ELEANOR sat at her bed-room window with her letter in her hand, looking sadly out on the undulating common, and the longer she looked, the sadder she grew. It was only some grief, loss, or pain that had been, thou

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