FROM THE DANISH.

I lay on my heathery hills all alone,

The storm-winds rush’d o’er me in turbulence loud;

My head rested lone on the gray moorland stone,

My eyes wandered starward from cloud unto cloud.

There wandered my eyes, but my thoughts onward passed,

Far, far beyond cloud-track or tempests’ career;

At times I hummed songs, and the desolate waste

Was the first the sad chimes of my spirit to hear.

Gloomy and gray are the moorlands, where rest