To One Who Pledged Her Friendship.

"Wild years that are to be         The sad completion of my weary life,         In ghostly mantles of despairing strife         Your pha"

"Two infants in their cradles lie,             Where lullabies of peace         In gentle strains of tender music die.             And carol"

"Somehow, someway, I can not see the light;             The giant hills of doubting reach the skies,         Abiding shadows bring eternal ni"

"All worthies are not sung in song.             That live their lives and do their deeds             Where wounded nature writhes and bleeds"

"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"