Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,

Drop, drop, drop, drop,

Since summer’s pride is now a withered daffodil.

Ben Jonson, 1574–1637.

LINES.

“O Mary, go and call the cattle home,

And call the cattle home,

And call the cattle home,

Across the sands o’ Dee;”

The western wind was wild and dark wi’ foam,