An Epistle To Dr. Moore.

"Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;         The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,         And the free maids, that weave their threa"

"Meek Twilight! soften the declining day,         And bring the hour my pensive spirit loves;     When, o'er the mountain flow descends the ray"

""Ah! pity all the pangs I feel,         If pity e'er ye knew;--     An aged father's wounds to heal,         Thro' scenes of death I flew."

"I.     Pale moon! thy mild benignant light     May glad some other captive's sight;     Bright'ning the gloomy objects nigh,     Thy beams a"

"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"