The Works of Soame Jenyns ... In Four Volumes. Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To Which are Prefixed, Short Sketches of the History of the Author's Family, and also of his Life; By Charles Nalson Cole |
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A PASSAGE IN OSSIAN VERSIFIED. |
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A PASSAGE IN OSSIAN VERSIFIED.
The deeds of ancient days shall be my theme;
O Lora, the soft murmurs of thy stream,
Thy trees, Garmallar, rustling in the wind,
Recall those days with pleasure to my mind.
O Lora, the soft murmurs of thy stream,
Thy trees, Garmallar, rustling in the wind,
Recall those days with pleasure to my mind.
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See'st thou that rock, from whose heath-cover'd crown,
Melvina, three old bended firs look down?
Green is the plain which at its feet is spread,
The mountain flower there shakes its milk-white head;
Two stones, memorials of departed worth,
Uplift their moss-cap'd heads, half sunk in earth;
The mountain deer, that crop the grass around,
See the pale ghosts who guard the sacred ground,
Then starting, fly the place, and at a distance bound.
Melvina, three old bended firs look down?
Green is the plain which at its feet is spread,
The mountain flower there shakes its milk-white head;
Two stones, memorials of departed worth,
Uplift their moss-cap'd heads, half sunk in earth;
The mountain deer, that crop the grass around,
See the pale ghosts who guard the sacred ground,
Then starting, fly the place, and at a distance bound.
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