The Bells Of Heaven

"See an old unhappy bull,     Sick in soul and body both,     Slouching in the undergrowth     Of the forest beautiful,     Banished from the h"

"I climbed a hill as light fell short,     And rooks came home in scramble sort,     And filled the trees and flapped and fought     And sang th"

"If you could bring her glories back!     You gentle sirs who sift the dust     And burrow in the mould and must     Of Babylon for bric-a-brac;"

"'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,     A penny for three tries!'     Some threw and lost, some threw and won     A ten-a-penny prize."

"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"