Solitude.

"Chords are touch'd by Apollo, the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth;     While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the dust.      -"

"Could this early bliss but rest     Constant for one single hour!     But e'en now the humid West     Scatters many a vernal shower.     Sho"

"He who with life makes sport,     Can prosper never;     Who rules himself in nought,     Is a slave ever.     MAY each honest effort be"

"Fly, dearest, fly! He is not nigh!     He who found thee one fair morn in Spring     In the wood where thou thy flight didst wing.     Fly, d"

"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"