SONG. Joanna Baillie Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL. 1840 pp. 369-370.

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SONG . WHAT voice is this , thou evening gale ! That mingles with thy rising wail ; And , as it passes , sadly seems The faint return of youthful dreams ? Though now its strain is wild and drear , Blythe was it once as sky-lark's cheer — Sweet as the night-bird's sweetest song — Dear as the lisp of Infant's tongue . It was the voice , at whose sweet flow The heart did beat , and cheek did glow , And lip did smile , and eye did weep , And motioned love the measure keep . Oft be thy sound , soft gale of even , Thus to my wistful fancy given ; And , as I list the swelling strain , The dead shall seem to live again .