Absence

"Now while so many turn with love and longing     To wan lands lying in the grey North Sea,     To thee we turn, hearts, memries, all belonging,"

"The bridle reins hang loose in the hold of his lean left hand;     As the tether gives, the horse bends browsing down to the sand,     On the po"

"What cares the rose if the buds which are its pride     Be plucked for the breast of the dead or the hands of a bride?     The mother-drift if"

"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"