Gone Before.

"Oh! the day was dark and dreary,     For clouds swept o'er the sun,     The burden of life seemed heavy,     And its warfare never done;     B"

"I am an outcast, sinful and vile I know,     But what are you, my lady, so fair, and proud, and high?     The fringe of your robe just touched m"

"On the shore I sit and gaze     Out on the twilight sea,     For my ship may come, though many days     I have waited patiently;     With wait"

"Now sinks the Summer sun into the sea;     Sure never such a sunset shone as this,     That on its golden wing has borne such bliss;         De"

"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"