Love.

"I know a cliff, whose steep and craggy brow     O'erlooks the troubled ocean, and spurns back     The advancing billow from its rugged base;"

"Thou splendid child of southern skies!         Thy brilliant plumes and graceful form     Are not so precious in mine eyes         As those gra"

"Oh ye! who all life's energies combine     The fadeless laurel round your brows to twine,     Pause but one moment in your brief career,     No"

"I have dreamed sweet dreams of a summer night,     When the moon was walking in cloudless light,     And my soul to the regions of Fancy sprung,"

"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"