A Fragment

"The shore-boat lies in the morning light,     By the good ship ready for sailing;     The skies are clear, and the dawn is bright,     Tho the"

"Now, welcome, welcome, masters mine,     Thrice welcome to the noble chase,     Nor earthly sport, nor sport divine,     Can take such honoura"

"‘WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, When the boughs are yellow and sere?"

"The ocean heaves around us still With long and measured swell, The autumn gales our canvas fill, Our ship rides smooth and well. The broad Atlantic's"

"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"