The Canary

"Oh, here in the shop the machines roar so wildly,     That oft, unaware that I am, or have been,     I sink and am lost in the terrible tumult;"

"Little candles glistening,     Telling those are listening     Legends manifold,     Many a little story,     Tales of blood and glory     Of"

"Farewell to the feast-day! the pray'r book is stained     With tears; of the booth scarce a trace has remained;     The lime branch is withered,"

"All the striving, all the failing,     To the silent Nothing sailing.     Swiftly, swiftly passing by!     For the land of shadows leaving,"

"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"