From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
"An honest man's the noblest work of God:"
And certes,' in fair virtue's heavenly road,

The cottage leaves the palace far behind:
What is a lordling's pomp?-a cumbrous load,
Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,
Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!

For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil

Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And, oh may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then howe'er crowns and coronets be rent,

A virtuous populace may rise the while;

And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle.

O Thou! who poured the patriotic tide

That streamed through Wallace's undaunted heart; Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride, Or nobly die, the second glorious part, (The patriot's God peculiarly thou art, His friend, inspirer, guardian, and reward!)

O never, never, Scotia's realms desert;

But still the patriot, and the patriot bard, In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard!

VERSES LEFT AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE.

O THOU dread Power, who reign'st above,
I know thou wilt me hear;

When for this scene of peace and love
I make my prayer sincere.

(1) Certes-certainly.

H H

The hoary sire-the mortal stroke,
Long, long, be pleased to spare!
To bless his little filial flock,
And show what good men are.

She, who her lovely offspring eyes,
With tender hopes and fears,
O, bless her with a mother's joys,
But spare a mother's tears!

Their hope, their stay, their darling youth,
In manhood's dawning blush;
Bless him, thou God of love and truth,
Up to a parent's wish!

The beauteous, seraph sister-band,
With earnest tears I pray,-

Thou know'st the snares on ev'ry hand,
Guide thou their steps alway!

When soon or late they reach that coast,
O'er life's rough ocean driven,
May they rejoice, no wanderer lost,
A family in Heaven!

THE END.

APPENDIX.

NOTE A. (See page 2.)

It is possible that the "resentment" spoken of in the third stanza was intended to indicate the anger of the Romans against the Druids. The meaning then would be-we are silent because the Romans have cruelly imposed silence upon us. We learn from Tacitus [Annales xiv. 30] that the Druids had just before, by their imprecations and threats, caused a temporary panic in the Roman army, and that in consequence their groves had been cut down, and a garrison placed over them. This fact gives some colour to the interpretation here hazarded; and which has been suggested by a literary friend of the editor.

NOTE B. (See page 5.)

To avoid the tautology in the commencement of this poem, some unknown author has thus altered, with doubtful advantage, the original reading:

Also

"The lofty pillars of the sky,

And spacious concave raised on high,
Spangled with stars," &c.

"The unwearied sun, from day to day,
Pours knowledge in his golden ray."

NOTE C. (See page 7.)

The opinion that exact knowledge increases rather than diminishes the pleasure of imagination, is thus expressed by Akenside:

"Nor ever yet

The melting rainbow's vernal tinctured hues
To me have shone so pleasing as when first

The hand of science pointed out the path

In which the sunbeams, gleaming from the west,
Fall on the watery cloud, whose darksome veil
Involves the orient."

NOTE D. (See page 8.)

The expression, "the world's grey fathers," seems to have been borrowed from an old poem by Henry Vaughan, a writer of the seventeenth century, who thus addresses the rainbow:

"How bright wert thou when Shem's admiring eye

Thy burnished flaming arch did first descry;

When Zerah, Nahor, Haran, Abram, Lot,

The youthful world's grey fathers, in one knot,
Did with intentive looks watch every hour

For thy new light, and trembled at each shower!"

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