Song Of Khan Zada

"Oh Amber Eyes, oh Golden Eyes!         Oh Eyes so softly gay!     Wherein swift fancies fall and rise,         Grow dark and fade away.     Ey"

"Oh, that my blood were water, thou athirst,     And thou and I in some far Desert land,     How would I shed it gladly, if but first     It tou"

"Just in the hush before dawn     A little wistful wind is born.     A little chilly errant breeze,     That thrills the grasses, stirs the tree"

"Oh, Masters, you who rule the world,     Will you not wait with me awhile,     When swords are sheathed and sails are furled,     And all the f"

"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"