Immortality

"Fairer than we the woods of May,     Yet sweeter blossoms do not grow     Than these we send you from our snow,     Cramped are their stems by"

"Oh, what a night for a soul to go!     The wind a hawk, and the fields in snow;     No screening cover of leaves in the wood,     Nor a star ab"

"I     Last night I dreamed this dream: That I was dead;     And as I slept, forgot of man and God,     That other dreamless sleep of rest,     I"

"Deem not this book a creed, 't is but the cry     Of one who fears not death, yet would not die;     Who at the table feigns with sorry jest."

"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"