The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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Oh fain would I borrow the harp of that land,
Where the dark sullen eagle broods over the strand,
Afar in his correi where shrub never grew;
Or mounts on bold pinion away from the view,
On beams of the morning to journey alone,
And peal his loud matin where echoes are none—
The harp of that region of storm and of calm,
To mount with the eagle, or sport with the lamb;
To warble in sunshine, in discord to jar,
And roar in the tempest of nature or war!
Of that have I need, and but that I'll have none,
To sound the memorial of old Beregon.
Where the dark sullen eagle broods over the strand,
Afar in his correi where shrub never grew;
Or mounts on bold pinion away from the view,
On beams of the morning to journey alone,
And peal his loud matin where echoes are none—
The harp of that region of storm and of calm,
To mount with the eagle, or sport with the lamb;
To warble in sunshine, in discord to jar,
And roar in the tempest of nature or war!
Of that have I need, and but that I'll have none,
To sound the memorial of old Beregon.
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