My Dead

"When madly raged religious war     O'er all the Magyar land     And royal archer and hussar     Met foemen hand to hand,     A princess fair i"

"Lo the lights in the "Teepee-Wkan!"      'tis the night of the Wkan Wacpee.     Round and round walks the chief of the clan,      as he ratt"

"Away, away, o'er the bounding sea     My spirit flies like a gull;     For I know my Mary is watching for me,     And the moon is bright and fu"

"Down into the darkness at last, Daniel, down into the darkness at last;     Laid in the lap of our Mother, Daniel, sleeping the dreamless sleep,"

"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"