A Good-By.

"A stone jug and a pewter mug,     And a table set for three!     A jug and a mug at every place,     And a biscuit or two with Brie!     Three"

"Buie Annajohn was the king's black mare,     Buie, Buie, Buie Annajohn!     Satin was her coat and silk was her hair,     Buie Annajohn,     T"

"Once in the Workshop, ages ago,     The clay was wet and the fire was low.     And He who was bent on fashioning man     Moulded a shape from"

"When Kavin comes back from the barber,     Although he no longer is young,     One cheek is as soft as his heart,     And the other as smooth a"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"