Early Spring

""I'm going to gran'ma's for a bit     My mother's got the copper lit;     An' piles of clothes are on the floor,     An' steam comes out the wa"

"His step? Ah, no; 'tis but the rain     That hurtles on the window pane.     Let's draw the curtains close and sit     Beside the fire awhile a"

""The Fairies must have come," I said,     "For through the moist leaves, brown and dead,     The Primroses are pushing up,     And here's a sca"

"I would that you should know,     Dear mother, that I love you -- love you so!     That I remember other days and years;     Remember childish"

"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"