...song. But when again we stood below The unhidden sky, his feet Grew slacker, and his note more «low, But more than doubly sweet. He led me then a little way Athwart the barren moor, And there he stayed, and bade me stay, Beside a cottage door ; I could have stayed of my own will, In truth,...

...Clarence Stedman MOTHER'S LOVE HE sang so wildly, did the Boy, That you could never tell If 't was a madman's voice you heard, Or if the spirit of a...the barren moor, And then he stayed and bade me stay 5 Beside a cottage door ; I could have stayed of mine own will, In truth, my eye and heart to fill...

...blue air his note To pierce, and fall, and rise, and float, With bolder utterance launches, None^ver was so sweet as he, The boy that wildly sang to me...the barren moor, And then he stayed and bade me stay 5 Beside a cottage door ; I could have stayed of mine own will, In truth, my eye and heart to fill...