Written At Midnight.

"Love, under Friendship's vesture white,     Laughs, his little limbs concealing;     And oft in sport, and oft in spite,     Like Pity meets th"

"Child of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight,     Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light;     And, where the flowers of paradise unfo"

"Ah! little thought she, when, with wild delight,     By many a torrent's shining track she flew,     When mountain-glens and caverns full of nig"

"Ah! why with tell-tale tongue reveal [1]     What most her blushes would conceal?     Why lift that modest veil to trace     The seraph-sweetne"

"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"