Song. Metempsychosis.

"Critic John cam here to view                     Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!     Lindsay's picture shop bran new,                     Ha, ha, the"

"Dirge the sorrows by time made dim:         Seas are sullen in rain and mist.     Regret the woes that behind us swim:         Sullen's the nor"

"Though here fair blooms the rose and the woodbine waves on high,     And oak and elm and bracken frond enrich the rolling lea,     And winds as"

"Long is it since they ceased to look on light,     To thrill with hope in our fond human way.     Why grudge them rest in their sweet ancient ni"

"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"