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Mustering clan, or squadron tramping;
Yet the lark's shrill fife may come

At the day-break from the fallow,
And the bittern sound his drum,
Booming from the sedgy shallow.
Ruder sounds shall none be near
Guards nor warders challenge here,
Here's no war steed's neigh and champing,
Shouting clans, or squadron stamping.

Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done,
While our slumbrous spells assail ye,

Dream not with the rising sun,

Bugles here shall sound reveillé.
Sleep! the deer is in his den,

Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying;
Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen,
How thy gallant steed lay dying.
Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done,
Think not of the rising sun,
For at dawning to assail ye,
Here no bugles sound reveillé.

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A FAREWELL.

Walter Scott.

My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey;
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

Charles Kingsley.

INDEX TO FIRST LINES.

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284

A beggar through the world am I
Abou Ben Adhem-may his tribe increase.................................................. 147
A chieftain to the Highlands bound............................ .............. 303
A dew drop falling on the wild sea wave...................................................... 204
Again to the battle, Achaians................................................................................................... 248
A huntsman, bearing his gun afield...

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Ah what pleasant visions haunt me......................................................... 302
A little chick one day......
All are architects of fate..
All ye woods and trees, and bowers.......................................................... 297
Among green, pleasant meadows..
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An ancient story I'll tell you anon.............................................................. 278
And where have you been, my Mary..
A nightingale made a mistake.................................................................................................. 87

Arethusa arose

Arise my maiden Mabel.........
A simple child.

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As I walked over the hill one day...
A thousand miles from land are we..........................

Bards of passion and of mirth.................
Behold her, single in the field...

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Belshazzar is king! Belshazzar is lord.........
Bird of the wilderness..

Blow, blow, thou winter wind....................
Break, break, break....

Calm was the day and through the trembling air.
Chirp! chipper! twitter! trill.................
Christmas is here.......

Come into the garden, Maud...

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Come listen to me, you gallants so free......
Come live with me and be my love......
Come unto these yellow sands................
Crabbed age and youth......

Daffy-Down-Dilly came up in the cold...
Deep in the wave is a coral grove...

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Do you ask what the birds say? the sparrow, the dove.........

Fair daffodils, we weep to see..........................................
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree.......

Fayre is my love when her fayre golden heares....................................... .... 217
Fear no more the heat o' the sun......................................................................................... 286
Flow down cold rivulet to the sea............................................................... 386
Flower in the crannied wall............................................................................................ 195
Forget not yet the tried intent.............................................................. 174
Full fathom five thy father lies...................................................................................

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How happy is he born and taught..

I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn..

I come from haunts of coot and hern......

If that the world and love were young.......
Into the silent land.............................

Into the sunshine.........

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he.

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Is there, for honest poverty.................................................................................. 225
It was a summer evening..

It was fifty years ago......

It was the schooner Hesperus....................................................

It was the winter wild.

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Jaffar the Barmecide, the good Vizier............................
John Gilpin was a citizen....

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Lackyng my love, I go from place to place................
Lady-bird, lady-bird! fly away home..

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Lady-moon, lady-moon, where are you roving.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds.
Life and thought have gone away.

Little one, come to my knee...

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228

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown.................. 273
Little white lily....

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Merrily swinging on briar and weed.
Mrs. June is ready for school..

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My banks they are furnished with bees............................................................ 361
My fairest child, I have no song to give you.................................................. 315
My good blade carves the casques of men........................................................... 399
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here............................................
My mind to me a kingdom is.......

North wind came whistling through the wood...
No stir in the air, no stir in the sea.

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Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note.. ................................................ 98
Now children, said Puss, as she shook her head.........................................................
Now fades the last long streak of snow.................
Now the hungry lion roars..

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O Luy most calm, non bright...

Often I think of the beautiful town..............

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Oh! a dainty plant is the ivy green............................................................. 260
O heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale....
O, hush thee, my babie, thy sire was a knight....
O, my little sea side girl
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On either side the river lie ........................................... ........ 304
On Linden, when the sun was low..............................................................................................
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On sunny slope and beechen swell..

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Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lowered..
Out and in the river is winding..

Over hill, over dale........................... ..................................................... 89
Over in the meadow..

O young Lochinvar is come out of the west.. ............................................................

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Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies.............................................................
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu..

Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair.........
Rest is not quitting....

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky.............................................................. 151
Ring tig! I wish I were a Primrose...............................................................
Rock-a-by, baby, up in the tree-top.........................................................................
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king...

Said the wind to the Moon, I will blow you out.
Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled..

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See the chariot at hand here of love.......... .................... 201
See the day begins to break............

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day.......

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She dwelt among the untrodden ways,............................................................. 291
Sing, I pray, a little song.....

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Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou.................................................... 145

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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright............................................

Swiftly walk over the western wave..

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Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind

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The alder by the river....

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The angel of the flowers one day..

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Tell me not in mournful numbers.........................

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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. ................................... 307

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The autumn has filled me with wonde: to day.
The breaking waves dashed high..
The cock is crowing........
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.....

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.....................................

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The greenhouse is my summer seat....
The Isles of Greece! the isles of Greece................................................. 148
The King sits iu Dunfermline town......
The lopped tree in time may grow again.

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The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year............ 223
The Mountain and the squirrel........

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