The Mighty Must

"When I was a lad I served a term     As office boy to an Attorney's firm.     I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,     And I polished u"

"Take a pair of sparkling eyes,     Hidden, ever and anon,     In a merciful eclipse     Do not heed their mild surprise     Having passed th"

"Of all the good attorneys who     Have placed their names upon the roll,     But few could equal BAINES CAREW     For tender-heartedness and so"

"A monarch is pestered with cares,     Though, no doubt, he can often trepan them;     But one comes in a shape he can never escape -     The im"

"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"