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Page 268 - s Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under? There are a thousand such elsewhere, As worthy of our wonder." Even the indomitable good nature of Sir Walter was scarce proof against what he deemed the disparaging, but, I doubt not, truthful, estimate of Washington
Page 113 - her forests huge, Inculi, robust, and tall, by Nature's hand Planted of old; her azure lakes between, Poured out extensive, and of watery wealth Full; winding deep and green, her fertile vales, With many a cool, translucent, brimming flood Wash'd lovely, from the Tweed (pure parent stream, Whose pastoral banks first heard my Doric reed, With,
Page 172 - strata of which the deposit consists, there is not one which does not speak of that law of change of which the poet, as if in anticipation of the discoveries of modern science, sings so philosophically and well : Of chance or change, oh! let not man complain, Else shall he never, never cease to wail
Page 349 - night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn
Page 282 - Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; For from their shivered brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the dcwdrop's sheen, The brier-rose fell in streamers green, And creeping shrubs of thousand dyes
Page 129 - Brown skeletons of leaves that lay The forest brook along, When the ivy tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below;
Page 282 - in the west wood's summer sighs. Boon nature scattered free and wild Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazle mingled there, The primrose pale and violet flower Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Foxglove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Grouped their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain,
Page 113 - Muse, High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene, Sees Caledonia in romantic view; Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a keen diffusive sky, Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge, Inculi, robust, and tall, by Nature's hand Planted of old; her azure lakes between,
Page 113 - lakes between, Poured out extensive, and of watery wealth Full; winding deep and green, her fertile vales, With many a cool, translucent, brimming flood Wash'd lovely, from the Tweed (pure parent stream, Whose pastoral banks first heard my Doric reed, With,