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Title: The Widow Author: Robert Southey [More Titles by Southey] SAPPHICs. Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snows fell, Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflexions; Fast o'er the bleak heath rattling drove a chariot, "Once I had friends,--but they have all forsook me! "I had a home once--I had once a husband-- On the cold snows she laid her down to rest her; Worn out with anguish, toil and cold and hunger, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |