O Hide Me In Thy Love

"Away, away--     Through that strange void and vast     Brimmed with dying day;     Away,     So that I feel     Only the wind     Of the wo"

"The moon gave no light.     The clouds rode slowly over, broad and white,     From the soft south west.     The wind, that cannot rest,     So"

"That you might happier be than all the rest,     Than I who have been happy loving you,     Of all the innocent even the happiest--     This I"

"It was the lovely moon--she lifted     Slowly her white brow among     Bronze cloud-waves that ebbed and drifted     Faintly, faintlier afar."

"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"