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Charles T. Brooks

Hart-Leap Well.

Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water about five miles Nothing but dulness and lethargy, weariness, sorrow, from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road that and death! among men, But blessed that child of humanity, happiest man Who, with hammer or chisel or pencil, with rudder or ploughshare or pen, Laboreth ever and ever with hope through the morning of life, Winning home and its dar'ing divinities-love-worshipped children and wife. Round swings the hammer of industry, quickly the sharp chisel rings, And the heart of the toiler has throbbings that stir not the bosom of kingsleads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the which monuments do now exist [1800] as I have there described monuments spoken of in the second part of the following poem, them.-THE AUTHOR.

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