Thence too ye bore the Torch of truth
That lights the Altar's hallowed fire
The hope of age, the guide of youth,
That heavenward leads us to aspire.

While Seraphs' Hallelujahs sing,

While Martyrs bear the immortal palm,
The heart which mortal sorrows wring
Shall find these truths a healing balm.

Then while through gayer scenes you rove,
Where pleasure leads the laughing hours,
Bids music wake in every grove,

And fancy deck her Syren bowers.

Still steadfast holds that radiant light
That pierces superstition's gloom,
Puts gay delusion's train to flight,

And sheds its lustre o'er the Tomb.

Think kindly of the far-famed Isle

From which your sires their lineage drew;

So may the Fates propitious smile

When you your happy home renew.

May friends, a kind, unbroken band,
With dewy eyes and glowing hearts,
Receive you on your native strand,

And fondly meet, no more to part.1

Written below, by the lady to whom this farewell is addressed : "Edinburgh, 16th. By Mrs. Grant of Laggan, from whom we have received every kindness imaginable since our arrival in this delightful town," and who in the following page of quotations from Scott, Goldsmith, and others, records her impressions of her fatherland:

1 The original manuscript of this poem, believed to have been written by Mrs. Grant in 1836, when she had passed fourscore, may be seen in the Lenox Library, New York. It is neatly written on four quarto pages, and is in excellent preservation. The name of the American lady to whom the poem was addressed does not appear on the manuscript. So far as known, it has never before appeared in print,

"Like some tall cliff which lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm ;
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head !"

"How very desolate that breast must be Whose only joyance is in memory !"

A LIST OF MRS. ANNE GRANT'S WRITINGS

"Poems on Various Subjects." By Mrs. Grant, Laggan. I vol., Printed for the author by John Moir, Royal Bank Close. Edinburgh. 1803.

8vo.

The same. Second edition. 1804.

"The Highlanders, and Other Poems." By Mrs. Grant, Laggan. Third edition. 18mo. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Longman, Hurst, & Orme, London. 1810.

"Letters from the Mountains: Being the real Correspondence of a Lady Between the Years 1773 and 1807." 3 vols., 18mo. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme. 1806.

The same.

Second edition. 1807.

The same. Boston Greenough & Stebbins. 2 vols., 12mo. "Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution." By the author of "Letters from the Mountains." 2 vols., London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme.

I 2mo.

The same. Second edition. 1809.

1808.

The same. I vol., 12mo. Boston B. W. Wells; New York: Samuel Campbell.

1809.

The same. Third edition. London: A. K. Newman & Co. 2 vols., 12mo.

1817.

The same. I vol., 12mo. New York: George Dearborn. 1836. (Contains Preface by Fitz-Greene Halleck.)

The same. I vol., 12mo. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1846. (Has Introduction by Grant Thorburn.)

"Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland. To which are added Translations from the Gaelic, and Letters connected with those formerly published." By the author of "Letters from the Mountains." 2 vols., 12mo. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. 1811. (The presentation copy before the writer contains these words in the Author's handwriting : "By Anne Grant, who has here embodied recollections precious to memory, the only valuable to the thoughtful and imaginative, such as the owner of this book, Mr. William Wilson.")