A Wish.

"I'll tell thee why this weary world meseemeth     But as the visions light of one who dreameth,     Which pass like clouds, leaving no trace beh"

"Are they indeed the bitterest tears we shed,     Those we let fall over the silent dead?     Can our thoughts image forth no darker doom,     T"

"Flower of the mountain! by the wanderer's hand          Robbed of thy beauty's short-lived sunny day;          Didst thou but blow to gem the st"

"Were they but dreams?    Upon the darkening world     Evening comes down, the wings of fire are furled,     On which the day soared to the sunny"

"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"