SLOW TO COME, QUICK AGONE.

Ah! there's a house that I do know

Besouth o' yonder trees,

Where northern winds can hardly blow

But in a softest breeze.

An' there woonce sounded zongs an' teäles

Vrom vaïce o' maïd or youth,

An' sweeter than the nightèngeäle's

Above the copses lewth.