Magical Nature

"I     Query: was ever a quainter     Crotchet than this of the painter     Giacomo Pacchiarotto     Who took Reform for his motto? II     He,"

"As certain also of your own poets have said     - (Acts 17.28)     Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles,     Lily on lily, that oerla"

"Shortly after the Revival of Learning in Europe     Let us begin and carry up this corpse,     Singing together.     Leave we the common crof"

"So, the three Court-ladies began     Their trial of who judged best     In esteeming the love of a man:     Who preferred with most reason was"

"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"