Beaten. Artist: Edward Dalziel. Engravers: the Dalziels. 1874. 2¾ x 5 inches. Picture Posies (London: Routledge, 1874), 20.
Dalziel encapsulates the poem’s melancholy lines in a poignant scene, with the daughter reassuring the father as he proclaims that ‘life is over for me now’ (20). The effects of darkness convey both melancholy and fatigue; the deep furrows in the soil also suggest his exhaustion.
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