rose up before me two maids_,
_with me to discourse intending_.

_The one kissed me on my cheek so white_, _the other
she whispered mine ear in_:
"_Arise_, _arise_, _thou beautiful swain_! _for thou
our dance must share in_.

"_Wake up_, _wake up_, _thou beautiful swain_! _rise
and dance_ '_mongst the verdant grasses_;
_And to sing thee the sweetest of their songs I'll
bid my elfin lasses_."

_To sing a song then one began_, _in voice so sweet
and mellow_,
_The boisterous stream was still'd thereby_, _that
before was wont to bellow_.

Waldemar's Chase. [_Late at eve they were toiling on 115
Harribee bank_]

Previously printed in _The Monthly Magazine_, _August_
1824, p. 21.

The Merman. [_Do thou_, _dear mother_, _contrive 117
amain_]

A later, and greatly improved, version of this Ballad
was included, under the title _The Treacherous Merman_,
in _The Serpent Knight and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp.
15-17. An early draft of this later version bears the
title _Marsk Stig's Daughter_.

The Deceived Merman. [_Fair Agnes alone on the 120
sea-shore stood_]

Previously printed in _The Monthly Magazine_, _March_
1825, pp. 143-144.

Cantata. [_This is Denmark's holyday_] 127

The Hail-Storm. [_When from our ships we bounded_] 136

_The Hail Storm_ was reprinted in _Targum_, 1835, pp.
42-43, and again in _Young Swaigder or The Force of
Runes and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 14-15. In each
instance very considerable variations were introduced
into the text.

The Elder-Witch. [_Though tall the oak_, _and firm its 139
stem_]

Ode. From the Gaelic. [_Oh restless_, _to night_, _are 142
my slumbers_]

Bear Song. [_The squirrel that's sporting_] 144

Previously printed, with some trifling differences in
the text, in _The Monthly Magazine_, _December_, 1824,
p. 432.

National Song. [_King Christian stood beside the mast_] 146

Previously printed (under the title "_Sea Song_; _from
the Danish of Evald_") in _The Monthly Magazine_,
_December_, 1823, p. 437.

The Old Oak. [_Here have I stood_, _the pride of the 149
park_]

Lines to Six-Foot Three. [_A lad_, _who twenty tongues 151
can talk_]

Nature's Temperaments:

1. Sadness. [_Lo_, _a pallid fleecy vapour_] 155

2. Glee. [_Roseate colours on heaven's high arch_] 156

3. Madness. [_Wha