The Flowering Orchard.

"King's daughter sitting in tower so high,     Fair summer is on many a shield.     Why weepest thou as the clouds go by?     Fair sing the swan"

"Of silk my gear was shapen,     Scarlet they did on me,     Then to the sea-strand was I borne     And laid in a bark of the sea.     O well w"

"Hear a word, a word in season, for the day is drawing nigh,     When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live, and some to die!     He that d"

"In Denmark gone is many a year,     So fair upriseth the rim of the sun,     Two sons of Gorm the King there were,     So grey is the sea when"

"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"