midnight
This is not now likely to happen ; for twenty long years have come and passed away , like the sunshine of yesterday , and neither word nor wittens of the body have been seen or heard tell of ; so , according to the course of nature , being a white-headed old man , with a pigtail , when the bargain was made , his dust and bones have , in all likelihood , long ago mouldered down beneath the green turf of his own mountains , like his granfather 's before him . This being the case , I daresay it is the reader 's opinion as well as my own , that I am quite at liberty to make what use of them I like . Concerning the poem things that came first in hand , I do not pretend to be any judge ; but James thinks he could scarcely write any muckle better himself : so here goes ; but I can not tell you to what tune : SONG They say that other eyes are bright , I see no eyes like thine ; So full of Heaven 's serenest light , Like midnight stars they shine . They say that other cheeks are fair -- But fairer can not glow The rosebud in the morning air , Or blood on mountain snow . Thy voice -- Oh sweet it streams to me , And charms my raptured breast ; Like music on the moonlight sea , When waves are lull 'd to rest . The wealth of worlds were vain to give Thy sinless heart to buy ; Oh I will bless thee while I live , And love thee till I die !