On Plucking A Hedgerow Rose.

"I.     I take my goosequill for some recreation,     I'll have a pleasurable time to-night,     A little change without the perturbation     Of n"

"Ah, hast thou gone from him whose breast     Bleeds with the thought we are apart,     Whose tears fall vainly and unblest,     Whose all--a cr"

"I.     Good day, and how d'ye do my friends and neighbours?     I must have dozed upon my easy chair;     I feel refreshed and recommence my labou"

"I.     An English village, a summer scene,     A homely cottage, a garden green,     An opening vista, a cloudless sky,     A bee that hums as it"

"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"