Must needs abundant be.
The dalesmen say that their light archway
Is due to an Egton[206] man,
Whose love was tried by a whelming tide;
I heard the tale in its native vale,
And thus the legend ran:—
"Why lingers my lov'd one? Oh! why does he roam
On the last winter's evening that hails him at home?
He promised to see me once more ere he went,
But the long rays of gloaming all lonely I've spent: