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'Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks-
Ere I own an usurper, I'll couch with the fox;
And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your glee,
You have not seen the last of my bonnet and me!'
Come fill up my cup, etc.

He waved his proud hand the trumpets were blown,
The kettle-drums clashed and the horsemen rode on,
Till on Ravelston's cliffs and on Clermiston's lee
Died away the wild war-notes of Bonny Dundee.
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,
Come saddle the horses, and call up the men,
Come open your gates, and let me gae free,
For it's up with the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

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DATUR HORA QUIETI

THE sun upon the lake is low,
The wild birds hush their song,
The hills have evening's deepest glow,
Yet Leonard tarries long.

Now all whom varied toil and care

From home and love divide,

In the calm sunset may repair
Each to the loved one's side.

The noble dame, on turret high,
Who waits her gallant knight,
Looks to the western beam to spy
The flash of armour bright.

The village maid, with hand on brow
The level ray to shade,

Upon the footpath watches now

For Colin's darkening plaid.

Now to their mates the wild swans row,

By day they swam apart,

And to the thicket wanders slow

The hind beside the hart.

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The woodlark at his partner's side
Twitters his closing song-

All meet whom day and care divide,
But Leonard tarries long!

HERE'S A HEALTH TO KING CHARLES

BRING the bowl which you boast,

Fill it up to the brim;
'Tis to him we love most,

And to all who love him.
Brave gallants, stand up,

And avaunt ye, base carles!
Were there death in the cup,

Here's a health to King Charles.

Though he wanders through dangers,
Unaided, unknown,
Dependent on strangers,

Estranged from his own;
Though 'tis under our breath,
Amidst forfeits and perils,

Here's to honor and faith,

And a health to King Charles!

Let such honors abound

As the time can afford,

The knee on the ground,

And the hand on the sword;

But the time shall come round

When, 'mid Lords, Dukes, and Earls,

The loud trumpet shall sound,

Here's a health to King Charles!

HARP OF THE NORTH, FAREWELL!

HARP of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark,
On purple peaks a deeper shade descending;
In twilight copse the glow-worm lights her spark,
The deer, half-seen, are to the covert wending.

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Resume thy wizard elm! the fountain lending,
And the wild breeze, thy wilder minstrelsy;
Thy numbers sweet with nature's vespers blending,
With distant echo from the fold and lea,

And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee.

Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp!
Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway,
And little reck I of the censure sharp

May idly cavil at an idle lay.

Much have I owed thy strains on life's long way,
Through secret woes the world has never known,
When on the weary night dawned wearier day,
And bitterer was the grief devoured alone.—
That I o'erlive such woes, Enchantress! is thine own.

Hark! as my lingering footsteps slow retire,
Some spirit of the Air has waked thy string!
'Tis now a seraph bold, with touch of fire,
'Tis now the brush of Fairy's frolic wing.
Receding now, the dying numbers ring

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Fainter and fainter down the rugged dell; And now the mountain breezes scarcely bring A wandering witch-note of the distant spell— And now, 'tis silent all!-Enchantress, fare thee well!

JAMES HOGG
[1770-1835]

KILMENY

BONNIE Kilmeny gaed up the glen;
But it wasna to met Duneira's men,
Nor the rosy monk of the isle to see,
For Kilmeny was pure as pure could be.
It was only to hear the yorlin' sing,

And pu' the cress-flower round the spring;
The scarlet hypp and the hindberrye,

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And the nut that hung frae the hazel tree;
For Kilmeny was pure as pure could be.
But lang may her minny look o'er the wa',
And lang may she seek i' the green-wood shaw;
Lang the laird o' Duneira blame,

And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny come hame!
When many a day had come and fled,

When grief grew calm, and hope was dead,
When mess for Kilmeny's soul had been sung,

When the bedesman had pray'd and the dead bell rung,
Late, late in gloamin' when all was still,

When the fringe was red on the Westlin' hill,
The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane,

The reek o' the cot hung over the plain,
Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane;'
When the ingles low'd' wi' an eiry leme,'
Late, late in the gloamin' Kilmeny came hame!

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'Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
Lang hae we sought baith holt" and den;
By linn," by ford, and green-wood tree,

Yet you are halesome and fair to see.
Where gat you that joup" o' the lily scheen?
That bonnie snood" of the birk sae green?

And these roses, the fairest that ever were seen?
Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?'

Kilmeny look'd up with a lovely grace,
But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face;
As still was her look, and as still was her e'e,
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea,
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.
For Kilmeny had been, she knew not where,
And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare;
Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew,
Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew.
But it seem'd as the harp of the sky had rung,

And the airs of heaven play'd round her tongue,

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Alone, by itself. 10 Weird gleam. 11 Wood. 12 Waterfall. 14 Hair-ribbon.

13 Mantle.

When she spake of the lovely forms she had seen,
And a land where sin had never been;

A land of love and a land of light,
Withouten sun, or moon, or night;
Where the river swa'd a living stream,
And the light a pure celestial beam;
The land of vision, it would seem,
A still, an everlasting dream.

In yon green-wood there is a waik,15
And in that waik there is a wene,"

And in that wene there is a maike,"
That neither has flesh, blood, nor bane;

And down in yon green-wood he walks his lane.

In that green wene Kilmeny lay,

Her bosom happ'd" wi' flowerets gay;
But the air was soft and the silence deep,
And bonnie Kilmeny fell sound asleep.
She kenn'd nae mair, nor open'd her e'e,
Till waked by the hymns of a far countrye.
She 'waken'd on a couch of the silk sae slim,
All striped wi' the bars of the rainbow's rim;
And lovely beings round were rife,

Who erst had travell'd mortal life;

And aye they smiled and 'gan to speer,20

'What spirit has brought this mortal here?'

'Lang have I journey'd, the world wide,' A meek and reverend fere" replied;

'Baith night and day I have watch'd the fair, Eident" a thousand years and mair.

Yes, I have watch'd o'er ilk" degree,

Wherever blooms femenitye;
But sinless virgin, free of stain
In mind and body, fand I nane.
Never, since the banquet of time,
Found I a virgin in her prime,

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