I Had A Little Nut-Tree

"A Kid vowed to Jove, so might he     Find his herd, & his herd did he see     Soon, of lions the prey:     Then 'twas--"Get me away,     And a"

"1.     Three children sliding on the ice,     All on a summer's day,     As it fell out, they all fell in,     The rest they ran away. 2.     N"

"In an old world garden dreaming,     Where the flowers had human names,     Methought, in fantastic seeming,     They disported as squires and"

"Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf,     Draussen steht ein Schaf,     Stsst sich an ein em Steinelein,     That ihm weh das Beinelein,     Schlaf, Kind"

"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"