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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Two Voices.
Over tower and palace,
River broad, and fountain—
Over den and desert,
Vale and lofty mountain—
Infant's bed—virgin's head—
Age and misery!
1st voice.
River broad, and fountain—
Over den and desert,
Vale and lofty mountain—
Infant's bed—virgin's head—
Age and misery!
Dost thou dread it?
2d voice.
Thou shalt see.
1st voice.
Dost thou shun it?
2d voice.
Oft I've done it.
Both voices.
Kind the heart that needs no suing!
Sweet the toil when good we're doing!
Sweet the toil, &c., &c.
1st voice.
Wert thou a watcher here?
2d voice.
Many a thousand year.
Both voices.
Then, for aye, our task pursuing,
Never done, yet always doing,
Till our time of bliss draws near.
1st voice.
Shall it never?
2d voice.
Yes, for ever.
Both voices.
Then our joys be ever new,
As our love and duty true!
Our task is love, and 'tis from above,
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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