Deep Sleep

"All the morn a spirit gay     Breathes within my heart a rhyme,     'Tis but hide and seek we play     In and out the courts of Time.     Fai"

"Not unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways:     One timeless hour in time we caught from the long night of endless days.     With"

"Oh, be not led away,         Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day.     The gay romance of song         Unto the spirit life doth not belong:"

"We are desert leagues apart;     Time is misty ages now     Since the warmth of heart to heart     Chased the shadows from my brow.     Oh, I"

"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"