And a desolate darkness comes with the night.

Where the waterfall roars like a storm o'er the heath,

The scathed Pine above, and the hoar Elm beneath;

'Mongst the lone, and the mighty, the vast and the deep—

'Tis there, as their own, that a Poet should sleep.

[2] Micah iv. 4.


THE WELLS O' WEARY.

Down in the valley lone,