The Shepherd

"And did those feet in ancient time     Walk upon England's mountains green?     And was the holy Lamb of God     On England's pleasant pastures"

"O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down     Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn     Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,     Which"

"Tyger, tyger, burning bright     In the forests of the night,     What immortal hand or eye     Could frame thy fearful symmetry?     In what"

"In futurity     I prophetic see     That the earth from sleep     (Grave the sentence deep)     Shall arise, and seek     for her Maker meek"

"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"