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Yet, ere oblivion shade each fairy scene,
Ere capes and cliffs and waters intervene,
Ere distant walks my pilgrim feet explore
By Elbe's slow wanderings and the Danish shore,
Still to my country turns my partial view,
That seems the dearest at the last adieu.
Ere capes and cliffs and waters intervene,
Ere distant walks my pilgrim feet explore
By Elbe's slow wanderings and the Danish shore,
Still to my country turns my partial view,
That seems the dearest at the last adieu.
Ye lawns and grottos of the clustered plain,
Ye mountain-walks, Edina's green domain,
Haunts of my youth! where, oft, by fancy drawn
At vermeil eve, still noon, or shady dawn,
My soul, secluded from the deafening throng,
Has wooed the bosom-prompted power of song;
And thou, my loved abode, romantic ground!
With ancient towers and spiry summits crown'd,
Home of the polished art and liberal mind,
By truth and taste enlightened and refined,
Thou scene of Scotland's glory! now decayed,
Where once her senate and her sceptre swayed—
As round thy mouldered monuments of fame
Tradition points an emblem and a name
Lo! what a group imagination brings
Of starrèd barons and of thronèd kings!
Departed days in bright succession start
And all the patriot kindles in my heart.
Ye mountain-walks, Edina's green domain,
Haunts of my youth! where, oft, by fancy drawn
At vermeil eve, still noon, or shady dawn,
My soul, secluded from the deafening throng,
Has wooed the bosom-prompted power of song;
And thou, my loved abode, romantic ground!
With ancient towers and spiry summits crown'd,
Home of the polished art and liberal mind,
By truth and taste enlightened and refined,
Thou scene of Scotland's glory! now decayed,
Where once her senate and her sceptre swayed—
As round thy mouldered monuments of fame
Tradition points an emblem and a name
Lo! what a group imagination brings
Of starrèd barons and of thronèd kings!
Departed days in bright succession start
And all the patriot kindles in my heart.
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