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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'Twas said, the bugle blasts between
Columba's lips were moving seen,
And his dim eyes to Heaven up-cast,
As that dumb prayer had been his last.
Oh read not dumb! What speech can feign
The language of a soul in pain?
That prayer, though made in deep distress,
Was not by creature succourless;
For, beaming from his faded eye,
There shot a ray of hope on high.
Columba's lips were moving seen,
And his dim eyes to Heaven up-cast,
As that dumb prayer had been his last.
Oh read not dumb! What speech can feign
The language of a soul in pain?
That prayer, though made in deep distress,
Was not by creature succourless;
For, beaming from his faded eye,
There shot a ray of hope on high.
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