Lucy Ashton's Song

"I.     And said I that my limbs were old,     And said I that my blood was cold,     And that my kindly fire was fled,     And my poor wither'd he"

""O hone a rie'! O hone a rie!"     The pride of Albin's line is o'er,     And fall'n Glenartney's stateliest tree;     We ne'er shall see Lord"

"CANTO I.XIX.     The Lady sought the lofty hall,     Where many a bold retainer lay,     And with jocund din among them all,     Her son pursued"

"This ae nighte, this ae nighte,     Every nighte and alle;     Fire and sleete and candle lighte,     And Christe receive thye saule.     Whe"

"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"