A Report Song in a Dream

"Those eyes that hold the hand of every heart,         That hand that holds the heart of every eye,     That wit that goes beyond all Nature's ar"

"Sweet Phyllis, if a silly swain         May sue to thee for grace,     See not thy loving shepherd slain         With looking on thy face;"

"Sylvan Muses, can ye sing     Of the beauty of the Spring?     Have ye seen on earth that sun     That a heavenly course hath run?     Have ye"

"The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold     A kind of heaven in his authorities;     The wealthy miser, in his mass of gold,     Makes to h"

"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"