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While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain,

Saddens his voice again, and yet again. Lift up your hearts, ye Mourners! for the might

On airy upland, and by forest rills,
And o'er wide plains cheered by the lark
that trills

5 His sky-born warblings-does aught meet your ken

Of the whole world's good wishes with More fit to animate the Poet's pen,

him goes;

Blessings and prayers in nobler retinue
Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror

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Aught that more surely by its aspect

fills

Pure minds with sinless envy, than the
Abode

knows, blow this wondrous Potentate. Be true, Of the good Priest: who, faithful through Te winds of ocean, and the midland sea,

all hours

ΙΟ

Fafting your Charge to soft Parthenope! To his high charge, and truly serving

III.

A PLACE OF BURIAL IN THE SOUTH OF
SCOTLAND.

ART fenced by man, part by a rugged
steep

bat curbs a foaming brook, a Graveyard lies;

he hare's best couching-place for fearless sleep;

Thich moonlit elves, far seen by credulous eyes,

nter in dance. Of church, or sabbath ties, o vestige now remains; yet thither creep ereft Ones, and in lowly anguish weep heir prayers out to the wind and naked skies.

roud tomb is none; but rudely-sculptured knights,

y humble choice of plain old times, are

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To mark some change of service. As the swell

Of music reached its height, and even when sank

The notes, in prelude, ROSLIN! to a blank

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THERE's not a nook within this solemn Pass

But were an apt confessional for One Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,

That Life is but a tale of morning grass Withered at eve. From scenes of art which chase 5

That thought away, turn, and with watchful eyes

Feed it 'mid Nature's old felicities, Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass

Untouched, unbreathed upon. Thrice happy quest,

If from a golden perch of aspen spray 10 (October's workmanship to rival May) The pensive warbler of the ruddy breast That moral sweeten by a heaven-taught lay,

Lulling the year, with all its cares, to rest!

COMPOSED IN THE GLEN OF LOCH ETIVE

"THIS Land of Rainbows spanning gle whose walls,

Rock-built, are hung with rainbow coloured mists

Of far-stretched Meres whose salt floo never rests

Of tuneful Caves and playful WaterfallsOf Mountains varying momently the creste

Proud be this Land! whose poorest hu

are halls

Where Fancy entertains becoming gues While native song the heroic Past recall Thus, in the net of her own wishes caugh The Muse exclaimed; but Story now mu hide

Her trophies, Fancy crouch; the cour of pride

That make the Patriot-spirit bow Has been diverted, other lessons taught

head

Where the all-conquering Roman feste to tread.

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The smoking steam-boat eager in pur- Like a lone criminal whose life is spared suit, Vexed is he, and screams loud. The la

As eagerly pursued; the umbrella spread To weather-fend the Celtic herdsman's head

I saw

Was on the wing; stooping, he str with awe

All speak of manners withering to the Man, bird, and beast; then, with a const root,

paired,

And of old honours, too, and passions From a bold headland, their loved aer high:

Then may we ask, though pleased that thought should range

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Among the conquests of civility,
Survives imagination-to the change
Superior? Help to virtue does she give?
If not, O Mortals, better cease to live!

guard,

Flew high above Atlantic waves, to dr Light from the fountain of the setti

sun.

Such was this Prisoner once; and wit

his plumes

The sea-blast ruffles as the storm comes

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IN THE SOUND OF MULL

RADITION, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw

hy veil in mercy o'er the records, hung found strath and mountain, stamped by the ancient tongue

In rock and ruin darkening as we go;~~pots where a word, ghost-like, survives to show

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And guide the Bard, ambitious to be One Of Nature's privy council, as thou art, II On cloud-sequestered heights, that see and hear

To what dread Powers He delegates his part

On Earth, who works in the heaven of heavens, alone.

XII.

THE EARL OF BREADALBANE'S RUINED MANSION, AND FAMILY BURIAL-PLACE, NEAR KILLIN.

WELL sang the Bard who called the grave, in strains

That-crimes from hate, or desperate love, Thoughtful and sad, the "narrow house." have sprung;

No style

rom honour misconceived, or fancied Of fond sepulchral flattery can beguile Grief of her sting; nor cheat, where he

wrong,

That feuds, not quenched but fed by mutual woe.

et, though a wild vindictive Race, untamed

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civil arts and labours of the pen, ould gentleness be scorned by those fierce Men,

detains

The sleeping dust, stern Death. How reconcile

With truth, or with each other, decked

remains

Of a once warm Abode, and that new Pile, For the departed, built with curious pains Vho, to spread wide the reverence they And mausolean pomp? Yet here they

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Whistling to clouds and sky-born streams,
that shine

At the sun's outbreak, as with light divine,
Ere they descend to nourish root and

stalk

must strike every one, and concurs with the plaid and kilt to recall to mind the comm nication which the ancient Romans had with this remote country.

IF to Tradition faith be due,

Of valley flowers. Nor, while the limbs And echoes from old verse speak true,

repose,

Will we forget that, as the fowl can keep
Absolute stillness, poised aloft in air, II
And fishes front, unmoved, the torrent's

sweep,

Ere the meek Saint, Columba, bore
Glad tidings to Iona's shore,
No common light of nature blessed
The mountain region of the west,
A land where gentle manners ruled

So may the Soul, through powers that O'er men in dauntless virtues schooled,
Faith bestows,
That raised, for centuries, a bar
Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss Impervious to the tide of war:

that Angels share.

XIV.

HIGHLAND HUT.

Yet peaceful Arts did entrance gain
Where haughty Force had striven in vain
And, 'mid the works of skilful hands,
By wanderers brought from foreign land
And various climes, was not unknown

SEE what gay wild flowers deck this The clasp that fixed the Roman Gown; earth-built Cot,

The Fibula, whose shape, I ween,

Whose smoke, forth-issuing whence and Still in the Highland Broach is seen,

how it may,

Shines in the greeting of the sun's first ray Like wreaths of vapour without stain or blot.

The limpid mountain-rill avoids it not; 5 And why shouldst thou?- If rightly trained and bred,

The silver Broach of massy frame,
Worn at the breast of some grave Dame
On road or path, or at the door
Of fern-thatched hut on heathy moor:
But delicate of yore its mould,
And the material finest gold;
As might beseem the fairest Fair,
Whether she graced a royal chair,

Humanity is humble, finds no spot
Which her Heaven-guided feet refuse to Or shed, within a vaulted hall,
tread.

No fancied lustre on the wall

The walls are cracked, sunk is the flowery Where shields of mighty heroes hung,

roof,

Undressed the pathway leading to the

door;

10 But love, as Nature loves, the lonely Poor;

While Fingal heard what Ossian sung.

The heroic Age expired-it slept
Deep in its tomb:-the bramble crept
O'er Fingal's hearth; the grassy sod

Search, for their worth, some gentle heart Grew on the floors his sons had trod:

wrong-proof,

Malvina ! where art thou? Their state

Meek, patient, kind, and, were its trials The noblest-born must abdicate; fewer,

The fairest, while with fire and sword

Belike less happy.-Stand no more aloof1! Come Spoilers-horde impelling horde.

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XVI.

THE BROWNIE.

Upon a small island, not far from the head of Loch Lomond, are some remains of an ancient building, which was for several years the abode of a solitary Individual, one of the last survivors of the clan of Macfarlane, once powerful in that neighbourhood. Passing along the shore opposite this island in the year 1814, the Author learned these particulars, and that this person then living there had acquired the appellation of "The Brownie." See "The Brownie's Cell," to which the following is a sequel. "How disappeared he?" Ask the newt and toad;

Ask of his fellow-men, and they will tell How he was found, cold as an icicle, Under an arch of that forlorn abode; Where he, unpropped, and by the gathering flood

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65 Of years hemmed round, had dwelt, prepared to try

is generations come and go, heir arts, their customs, ebb and flow; ate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, ad feeble, of themselves, decay; That poor abodes the heirloom hide, 4 which the castle once took pride! okens, once kept as boasted wealth, saved at all, are saved by stealth. !ships, from seas by nature barred, fount along ways by man prepared; nd in far-stretching vales, whose streams ek other seas, their canvas gleams.

! busy towns spring up, on coasts hronged yesterday by airy ghosts; jon, like a lingering star forlorn mong the novelties of morn, hile young delights on old encroach, ill vanish the last Highland Broach.

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Privation's worst extremities, and die With no one near save the omnipresent

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