To Frances

"Is it well with the child? and she answered, it is well.     If earth's weariness for rest is changed,         Rest on the far off shore,     If"

"Dearest of all, whose tenderness could rise         To share all sorrow and to soothe all pain;     The blessings breathed for thee with weeping"

"(WALTER AND FREDDIE.)     From morn to eve, from evening unto morning,         I mourn and cannot rest;     So mourns the mother bird when home r"

"First of women, best of friends     Take what a village rhymer sends,     A tear wet trifle sent to tell     The giver must bid thee farewell!"

"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"