Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne With a Memoir and Poems of Caroline Oliphant the Younger: Edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers ... With a Portrait and Other Illustrations |
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ADIEU TO STRATHEARN. |
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ADIEU TO STRATHEARN.
Strathearn, oh! how shall I quit thy sweet groves?
How bid thee a long, oh! an endless adieu?
Sad memory over such happiness roves,
As not hope's own magic can ever renew.
How bid thee a long, oh! an endless adieu?
Sad memory over such happiness roves,
As not hope's own magic can ever renew.
Sweet scene of my childhood, delight of my youth!
Thy far-winding waters no more I must see;
Thy high-waving bowers, thy gay woodland flowers,
They wave now, they bloom now, no longer for me.
Thy far-winding waters no more I must see;
Thy high-waving bowers, thy gay woodland flowers,
They wave now, they bloom now, no longer for me.
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