Song.

"Christina, maiden of heroic mien!     Star of the North! of northern stars the queen!     Behold, what wrinkles I have earn'd, and how     The"

"Close by the threshold of a door naild fast     Three kittens sat; each kitten lookd aghast.     I, passing swift and inattentive by,     At"

"Two nymphs, both nearly of an age,     Of numerous charms possessd,     A warm dispute once chanced to wage,     Whose temper was the best."

"Too many, Lord, abuse thy grace,     In this licentious day;     And while they boast they see thy face,     They turn their own away.     T"

"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"