Related Clues:

• Before, archaically
• Over, condensed
• "__ pales in Heaven the morning star": Lowell
• Ever, poetically
• Poetic “previously”
• Over to Francis Scott Key
• '___ the Water to Charlie' (old ballad)
• '__ the ramparts...'
• Previously, in a 19th century literature class
• "Not stepping __ the bounds of modesty": Juliet
• It sounds like "air"
• Poetic "previously"
• Poet's palindromic "before"
• It may come before long?
• Long or now preceder