Possible Clues:

• 'And ___ the field the road runs by': Tennyson
• Via, to Burns
• Via, for short
• By way of, to bards
• Amidst, briefly
• Archaic prep.
• "As __ the land at eve we went": Tennyson
• "Comin' ___' the Rye"
• During, old-style
• 'Comin' ___ the Rye' (Robert Burns poem)