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fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and brakes

That humor interposed too often makes;
All this still legible in memory's page,
And still to be so to my latest age,
Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay 70
Such honors to thee as my numbers may;
Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere,
Not scorned in heaven, though little
noticed here.

Could Time, his flight reversed, restore the hours,

When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers,

The violet, the pink, and jassamine,

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I pricked them into paper with a pin (And thou wast happier than myself the while,

Would softly speak, and stroke my head and smile),

Could those few pleasant days again

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So thou, with sails how swift! hast reached the shore,

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And undebased by praise of meaner things! "Where tempests never beat nor billows That, ere through age or woe I shed my roar."

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wings,

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And so long he, with unspent power,

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His destiny repelled;

And ever, as the minutes flew,
Entreated help, or cried "Adieu!"

At length, his transient respite past,
His comrades, who before
Had heard his voice in every blast,
Could catch the sound no more:
For then, by toil subdued, he drank
The stifling wave, and then he sank.

No poet wept him; but the page

Of narrative sincere,

That tells his name, his worth, his age,
Is wet with Anson's tear:
And tears by bards or heroes shed
Alike immortalize the dead.

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THE HOLY FAIR

Upon a simmers Sunday morn,
When Nature's face is fair,

I walked forth to view the corn
An' snuff the caller9 air.
The rising sun owre Galston muirs
Wi' glorious light was glintin,
The hares were hirplin10 down the furs,1
The lav'rocks12 they were chantin
Fu' sweet that day.

As lightsomely I glowered 13 abroad
To see a scene sae gay,
Three hizzies,14 early at the road,
Cam skelpin15 up the way.
Twa had manteeles o' dolefu' black,
But ane wi' lyart 16 lining;

The third, that gaed a wee a-back,
Was in the fashion shining
Fu' gay that day.

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