The End Of Laughter

"Her eyes are bluebells now, her voice a bird,         And the long sighing grass her elegy;     She who a woman was is now a star         In th"

"Simple am I, I care no whit         For pelf or place,     It is enough for me to sit         And watch Dulcinea's face;     To mark the light"

"The Dcadent was speaking to his soul -     Poor useless thing, he said,     Why did God burden me with such as thou?     The body were enough,"

"'Our little babe,' each said, 'shall be     Like unto thee' - 'Like unto thee!'     'Her mother's' - 'Nay, his father's' - 'eyes,'     'Dear cu"

"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"