Choice

"Evening sunshine never     Solace to my window bears,     Morning sunshine elsewhere fares; -      Here are shadows ever.      Sunshine fre"

"(See Note 46)     Of long toil 't is a matter      Through many a silent age,     Before such power can shatter      Time-hallowed custom's c"

"(See Note 80)     Thou, who sailest Norse mountain-air,     And Denmark's songs by the cradle singest,     Who badest in Hald the war-flames f"

""Dance!" called the fiddle,      Its strings loudly giggled,      The bailiff's man wriggled      Ahead for a spree.     "Hold!" shouted Ola"

"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"