An Inequitable Impost

"There are tracks through the scrub, theres a track down the hill,     And a track round the bend from MCourteneys mill,     Where they slyly"

"He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly, And with dim old eyes and a queer roll aft, With the off-fore sprung and the hind screwed badly"

"Past a dull, grey plain where a world-old grief seems to brood oer the silent land, When the orbd moon turns her tense, white face on the ominous w"

"Our Mr. Jiggs was certainly an estimable youth,     A pillar of propriety, a champion of truth;     He had a good position in a warehouse in the"

"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"