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Glasshouse without finding, intelligence was 

 brought that a fox had been seen near 

 Skinsmore. 



" Men, boys, and girls ! 

 Desert the unpeopled village, and wild crowds 

 Spread o'er the plain, by the sweet frenzy seized. 



The intelligence wanted but confirmation. 

 Harmony and Merlin, the heralds of the 

 pack, soon proclaimed the joyful tidings — 



" They cheer the pack, 

 Opening in concerts of harmonious joy, 

 But breathing death. 



The fox had gone a considerable time be- 

 fore to Cangort Wood ; but it is not for 

 time or distance to silence these sons of 

 Harmony, Handel, Highlander, and Har- 

 per; in a dreadful crash, 



" The pack wide opening, load the trembling air 

 With various melody ; .... 



The forest thunders, and the mountains' shake, 

 The chorus swells :..... 



. and now 

 In vain each earth he tries, — the doors are barr'd 

 Impregnable ; nor is the covert safe, — 

 He pants for purer air. 



