Her New-Year Posy

"Under vague silver moonlight     The trees are lovely and ghostly,     In the pale blue of the night     There are few stars to see.     The"

"Secret and wise as nature, like the wind     Melancholy or light-hearted without reason,     And like the waxing or the waning moon     Ever pa"

"Chestnut candles are lit again     For the dead that died in spring:     Dead lovers walk the orchard ways,     And the dead cuckoos sing."

"How shall the living be comforted for the dead     When they are gone, and nothing's left behind     But a vague music of the words they said"

"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"