'The Four-and-twenty Blackbirds' 'Banbury Cross,'

'The Gander' and 'The man of Mitylene,'

And all the quaint old scraps of ancient crones,

Which are as gems set in my memory,

Because she learn'd them with me. Or what profits it

To tell ye that her father died, just ere

The daffodil was blown; or how we found

The drowned seaman on the shore? These things

Unto the quiet daylight of your minds

Are cloud and smoke, but in the dark of mine