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The Highlanders, and other poems

By Mrs. Grant, Laggan. Second edition

Grant, Anne MacVicar (1755-1838)

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INTRODUCTORY VERSES.

ADDRESSED TO MRS. DUNLOP OF DUNLOP:

ON THE DEATH OF BURNS.

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THE HIGHLANDERS:

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

TO SIR JAMES GRANT, BARONET.

A BALLAD, FOUNDED ON FACT.

SONNET.

A FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A FRIEND.

AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND.

THE NYMPH OF THE FOUNTAIN

ANSWER TO A POETICAL EPISTLE FROM AN INTIMATE FRIEND.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK,

SENT TO A YOUNG NOBLEMAN,

TO MISS WALLIS,

AN ODE, ON READING ONE UPON THE SAME SUBJECT BY PROFESSOR RICHARDSON OF GLASGOW.

ANSWER TO A POETICAL APOLOGY

HYMN FOR THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.

TO THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG LADY,

TO A LADY, DEEPLY INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT OF THE FOLLOWING POEM.

TO MISS DUNBAR, OF BOATH.

INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN SEAT.

ON READING MANUSCRIPT POEMS BY A YOUNG LADY,

WRITTEN IN ONE OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLE'S WALKS AT BLAIR,

PEACEFUL SHADES.

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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GAELIC.

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I.

II.

THE AGED BARD'S WISH,

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SONNET.

[All hail! ye frowning terrors of my way]

All hail! ye frowning terrors of my way,
Rude Grampian mountains! crown'd with lasting snow,
No flow'ry vales, or plains with verdure gay,
Could bid my soul with purer joy o'erflow.
Barriers of holy freedom! your stern brow
With guardian frown o'erlooks her last retreat,
When tyrant rapine roam'd the plains below,
Among your winding glens she found a seat

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Beyond those dark defiles, thy narrow vale,
Green Laggan! soon shall cheer my weary sight .
Young voices sounding on the mountain gale,
Shall fill this anxious bosom with delight,
While ruddy innocence with raptur'd smile
Shall cling to this fond heart, by absence torn erewhile!

The name of the parish in which the Author lived, one of the wildest and most remote districts in Scotland.