The Sceptic

"Moko, the Educated Ape is here,         The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say,         And every night the gaping people pay         To"

"I have some friends, some worthy friends,      And worthy friends are rare:      These carpet slippers on my feet,      That padded leather ch"

""Black is the sky, but the land is white -         (O the wind, the snow and the storm!) -      Father, where is our boy to-night?         P"

"It's good the great green earth to roam,      Where sights of awe the soul inspire;      But oh, it's best, the coming home,      The crackle"

"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"