When The Dark Comes

"This is the scene of a mans despair, and a souls release      From the difficult traits of the flesh; so, it seeking peace,      A shot rang"

"I am the song, that rests upon the cloud;                  I am the sun:      I am the dawn, the day, the hiding shroud,                  When"

"Who was stealing the Barons wine,      Golden sherry and port so old,      Precious, I wot, as drops of gold?      Lone to-night he came to d"

"O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine,      When the winds are out and calling to this vagrant heart of mine.      Whisht! it whistles"

"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"