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THE MILLER’S MAID. A TALE

NEAR the High road upon a winding stream

An honest Miller rose to Wealth and Fame:

The noblest Virtues cheer’d his lengthen’d days,

And all the Country echo’d with his praise:

His Wife, the Doctress of the neighb’ring Poor,

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Walter AND Jane: OR, THE POOR BLACKSMITH. A COUNTRY TALE

BRIGHT was the summer sky, the Mornings gay,

And Jane was young and chearful as the Day.

Not yet to Love but Mirth she paid her vows;

And Echo mock’d her as she call’d her Cows.

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RICHARD AND KATE; OR, FAIR-DAY. A SUFFOLK BALLAD

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‘Come, Goody, stop your humdrum wheel,

Sweep up your orts,

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RURAL TALES, BALLADS AND SONGS (1802)

CONTENTS.

Editors’ Introduction

Prefaces

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EMMA’S KID

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First published in The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Review, 1 (1810), 50–52, and
collected in Remains with Bloomfield’s note: ‘Originally accompanying a pair of kid-leather

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TO GENERAL LOYD. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE OLD ELMS AT THE WEST END OF WOOLWICH BARRACKS
(1800–1).

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Bloomfield does not date the poem, but the building of a new barrack block at Woolwich

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TO IMMAGINATION (1800)

Editorial Introduction

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A NEIGHBOURLY RESOLUTION (1800)

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Written in 1800. See Letter 33. Published in The Monthly Mirror, 10 (July 1800), 48–49.
In Letter 94, 2 September 1802, Bloomfield wrote of it, ‘I own that I have resolutely

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TO HIS MOTHER WITH A COPY OF ‘THE FARMER’S BOY’

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Undated but presumably 1800.