Written Upon Receiving A New Year's Gift.

"As the shadows of evening around me are falling,     With its dark sombre curtain outspread,     And night's just at hand, chilly night so appal"

"Why, dear friends, oh! tell us wherefore     You're so anxious to be gone;     Is the country late adopted     Dearer to you than your own?"

"Oh! tell me ye shepherds, tell me I pray,     Have you seen the fair Jessie pass by this way?     You ne'er could forget her, if once you had se"

"Remember the poor, in the dark chilly day,     When November's loud winds are fierce blowing;     Remember the poor, at thy plentiful board,"

"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"