Epigram

"Neobule, being tired,     Far too tired to laugh or weep,     From the hours, rosy and gray,     Hid her golden face away.     Neobule, fain o"

"I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies     Betwixt our separate ways;     For vainly my heart prays,     Hope droops her head and dies;"

"Exceeding sorrow     Consumeth my sad heart!     Because to-morrow     We must depart,     Now is exceeding sorrow     All my part!     Giv"

"Sleep! Cast thy canopy     Over this sleeper's brain,     Dim grow his memory,     When he awake again.     Love stays a summer night,     T"

"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"