"Raving | winds a | -round her | blowing,
Yellow | leaves the | woodlands | strewing,
By a | river | hoarsely | roaring,
Isa | -bella | strayed de | -ploring.
'Farewell | hours that | late did | measure
Sunshine | days of | joy and | pleasure;
Hail, thou | gloomy | night of | sorrow,
Cheerless | night that | knows no | morrow.
2.
O'er the | past too | fondly | wandering,
On the | hopeless | future | pondering,
Chilly | grief my | life-blood | freezes,
Fell de | -spair my | fancy | seizes.
Life, thou | soul of | every | blessing,
Load to | misery | most dis | -tressing,
O how | gladly | I'd re | -sign thee,
And to | dark ob | -livion | join thee.'"
ROBERT BURNS: Select Works, Vol. ii, p. 131
Example II.—A Song Petitionary.
"Powers ce | -lestial, | whose pro | -tection
Ever | guards the | virtuous | fair,
While in | distant | climes I | wander,
Let my | Mary | be your | care:
Let her | form so | fair and | faultless,
Fair and | faultless | as your | own;
Let my | Mary's | kindred | spirit
Draw your | choicest | influence | down.
Make the | gales you | waft a | -round her
Soft and | peaceful | as her | breast;
Breathing | in the | breeze that | fans her,
Soothe her | bosom | into | rest:
Guardian | angels, | O pro | -tect her,
When in | distant | lands I | roam;
To realms | unknown | while fate | exiles me,
Make her | bosom | still my | home."
BURNS'S SONGS, Same Volume, p. 165.
Example III.—Song of Juno and Ceres.
Ju. "Honour, | riches, marriage | -blessing,
Long con | -tinuance, | and in | -creasing,
Hourly | joys be | still up | -on you!
Juno | sings her | blessings | on you."
Cer. "Earth's in | -crease, and | foison | plenty;
Barns and | garners | never | empty;
Vines with | clust'ring | bunches | growing;
Plants with | goodly | burden | bowing;
Spring come | to you, | at the | farthest,
In the | very | end of | harvest!
Scarci | -ty and | want shall | shun you;
Ceres' | blessing | so is | on you."
SHAKSPEARE: Tempest, Act iv, Sc. 1.
Example IV.—On the Vowels.
"We are | little | airy | creatures,
All of | diff'rent | voice and | features;
One of | us in | glass is | set,
One of | us you'll | find in | jet;