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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Valet with Parma's knight he came,
An angler in the tides of fame;
And oft had tried, with anxious pain,
Respect of Scotland's queen to gain.
Too well his eye, with searching art,
Perceived her fond, her wareless heart;
And, though unskilled in Scottish song,
Her notice he had woo'd so long,
With pain by night, and care by day,
He framed this fervid, flowery lay.
An angler in the tides of fame;
And oft had tried, with anxious pain,
Respect of Scotland's queen to gain.
Too well his eye, with searching art,
Perceived her fond, her wareless heart;
And, though unskilled in Scottish song,
Her notice he had woo'd so long,
With pain by night, and care by day,
He framed this fervid, flowery lay.
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