Integer Vitae

"Thrice toss those oaken ashes in the air;     Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair;     Then thrice three times tie up this true love's"

"Now winter nights enlarge     The number of their hours,     And clouds their storms discharge     Upon the airy towers.     Let now the chimn"

"When thou must home to shades of underground,     And there arrived, a new admird guest,     The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round,     W"

"Of Neptunes empire let us sing,     At whose command the waves obey;     To whom the rivers tribute pay,     Down the high mountains sliding:"

"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"