A Triolet

"Our moneys all spent, to the deuce went it!         The landlord, he looks glum,     On the tap-room wall, in a very bad scrawl,         He ha"

"There's a soldier that's been doing of his share In the fighting up and down and round about. He's continually marching here and there, And he's fi"

"An angel stood beside the bed Where lay the living and the dead. He gave the mother, her who died, A kiss that Christ the Crucified Had sent to"

"Scene: Federal Political Arena A darkened cave. In the middle, a cauldron, boiling. Enter the three witches. 1ST WITCH: Thrice hath the Federal J"

"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"