"Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene, / And people's minds were, like the air, serene."
Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad Heifer run through the Village where the Author lives [from The Death of Amnon]
Text from Roger Lonsdale, ed. <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).<br>
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See also <u>The Death of Amnon. A Poem. With an Appendix: Containing Pastorals, and Other Poetical Pieces. By Elizabeth Hands.</u> (Coventry: Printed for the Author, by N. Rollason, 1789). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=n6YTAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;