Misty Sky

"Je suis comme le roi dun pays pluvieux,     Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant trs-vieux,     Qui, de ses prcepteurs mprisant les co"

"With quiet heart, I climbed the hill,     from which one can see, the city, complete,     hospitals, brothels, purgatory, hell,     prison, wh"

"De ce ciel bizarre et livide,     Tourment comme ton destin,     Quels pensers dans ton me vide     Descendent? Rponds, libertin.     Ins"

"You said, there grows within you some strange gloom,     A sea rising on rock, why is it so?     When once your heart has brought its harvest ho"

"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"