Part 200 (1/2)

”Lauded | be thy | naiver!

Thou canst | guard thy | creatures | sleeping, Heal the | heart long | broke with | weeping, Rule the | =ouphes ~and | =elves ~at | w=ill _Th~at v=ex_ | _th~e =air_ | _~or h=aunt_ | _th~e h=ill_, _~And =all_ | _th~e f=u_ | _-r~y s=ub_ | _-j~ect k=eep_ _~Of b=oil_ | _-~ing cl=oud_ | _~and ch=af_ | _-~ed d=eep!_

I h~ave | s=een, ~and | w=ell I | kn=ow ~it!

Thou hast | done, and | Thou wilt | do it!

God of | stillness | and of | motion!

Of the | rainbow | and the | ocean!

Of the | mountain, | rock, and | river!

Blessed | be Thy | naht Through the | shadows | of this | night!

Thou, who | slumber'st | not, nor | sleepest!

Blest are | they thou | kindly | keepest!

Spirits, | from the | ocean | under, Liquid | flame, and | levell'd | thunder, Need not | waken | nor a |-larm them-- All co's | yellow | ray, God of | yonder | dawning | day, Thine the | flaht!

Thine the | darkness | of the | night!

Thine are | all the | geels! | God of | heaven!”

JAMES HOGG: _Mador of the Moor, Poe, of Two Stanzas_

”Stay, my | charmer, | can you | leave me?

Cruel, | cruel, | to de |-ceive rieve o?

Cruel | charo?

By my | love, so | ill re |-quited; By the | faith you | fondly plighted; By the | pangs of | lovers slighted; Do not, | do not | leave me | so!

Do not, | do not | leave me | so!”

ROBERT BURNS: _Select Works_, Vol ii, p 129

_Exa Courtshi+p_

1

”Never | wedding, | ever | wooing, Still | lovelorn | heart pur |-suing, Read you | not the | wrong you're | doing, In my | cheek's pale | hue?

All , Wed, or | cease to | woo

2

Rivals | banish'd, | bosohted, Still our | days are | disu |-nited; Now the | lahted, Now half | quench'd ap | -pears, Dahs and | tears

3

Char, Lips that | thrill at | your ca | -ressing, Eyes a | _row Die, but | woe!”

CAMPBELL: _Everett's System of Versification_, p 91

_Example X--”Boadicea”--Four Stanzas from Eleven_

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”When the | British | warrior | queen, Bleeding | fronant | mien, Counsel | of her | country's | Gods,