Birthright

"Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go     Along the hill-top way,     And with long scythes of silver mow     Meadows of moonlit hay,     Until th"

"I do not think that skies and meadows are     Moral, or that the fixture of a star     Comes of a quiet spirit, or that trees     Have wisdom i"

"Then I asked: 'Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?'     He replied: 'All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imaginati"

"He was a man with wide and patient eyes,     Grey, like the drift of twitch-fires blown in June,     That, without fearing, searched if any wron"

"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"