SOLDIER, REST!

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,

Flourish, the shelter and grace of our line!

Dream of battled fields no more,

Heaven send it happy dew, Earth lend it sap anew,

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Days of danger, nights of waking.

In our isle's enchanted hall,

While every Highland glen Sends back our shout again, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!

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Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise again,

Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!

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"If, maiden, thou wouldst wend with me,
To leave both tower and town,
Thou first must guess what life lead we 15
That dwell by dale and down.
And if thou canst that riddle read,
As read full well you may,
Then to the greenwood shalt thou speed,
As blithe as Queen of May." —
Yet sung she: "Brignall banks are fair,
And Greta woods are green;
I'd rather rove with Edmund there,
Than reign our English queen.

"I read you by your bugle-horn,
And by your palfrey good,
I read you for a ranger sworn
To keep the King's greenwood."—
"A ranger, lady, winds his horn,
And 'tis at peep of light:
His blast is heard at merry morn,
And mine at dead of night."-
Yet sung she: "Brignall banks are fair,

And Greta woods are gay;

I would I were with Edmund there,
To reign his Queen of May.

"With burnished brand and musketoon
So gallantly you come,
I read you for a bold dragoon

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His sword in battle keen"

That lists the tuck of drum.""I list no more the tuck of drum, No more the trumpet hear,

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But when the beetle sounds his hum,
My comrades take the spear.
And oh, though Brignall banks be fair, 45
And Greta woods be gay,
Yet mickle must the maiden dare
Would reign my Queen of May!

Come fill up my cup, etc.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle

Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?

Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,

Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, 5

(1788-1824)

WHEN WE TWO PARTED

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years,

ever shine;