THE HAPPY ISLANDS.

“Tell me, brother, dearest brother,

Why it is thou aye dost weep?

Why thus, ever listless, sittest

Looking forth across the deep?

“Thy impatient steed is wond’ring

Why his master doth not come,

On his perch thy hawk is sleeping,

E’en thy hound’s deep voice is dumb.

“Yesternight there came a minstrel