boon: a gift

bower: a rustic dwelling

burthen: burden

cataract: a waterfall

copses: patches of brush or growth

coronal: a crown of flowers

corporeal: bodily

creed: a system of belief

culling: to gather

diurnal: daily

dower: a natural gift

enmity: hatred

equipage: a carriage

fen: a swampy marshland

fretted: irritated

Hebrides: a grouping of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland

jocund: joyful

lea: an open tract of land

linnet: a small finch (bird)

lore: a traditional body of knowledge

palsied: having lost strength from age

pensive: deeply thoughtful

porringer: a bowl for porridge

recompense: compensation

roe: a small deer

sordid: morally degraded

stagnant: stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water

steep: to soak or saturate

tabor: a small drum

throstle: a song thrush (bird)

vernal: of or pertaining to spring

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