The Pity Of The Angels.

"("A quoi bon entendre les oiseaux?")     [RUY BLAS, Act II.]     Oh, why not be happy this bright summer day,     'Mid perfume of roses and"

"("Vous qui ne savez pas combien l'enfance est belle.")     Sweet sister, if you knew, like me,     The charms of guileless infancy,     No mo"

"("La tombe dit la rose.")     [XXXI., June 3, 1837]     The Grave said to the rose     "What of the dews of dawn,     Love's flower, what"

"("Mon pre, ce hros au sourire.")     [Bk. XLIX. iv.]     My sire, the hero with the smile so soft,     And a tall trooper, his companion o"

"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"