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ON READING, AFTER HIS DEATH, PRINCIPAL
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IV. ON READING, AFTER HIS DEATH, PRINCIPAL SHAIRP'S LAST PUBLIC LECTURE ON HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.
King of the half-forgotten world of fays,When Mab was queen among the Elfin band
A blight has fallen upon our northern land,
No Brownies dance down Ettrick's forest braes,
Where Douglas runs to Yarrow, but thy praise
Lives through his lips who well could understand
How Nature into flame thy fancy fanned,
And drank thy full imagination's rays.
No more on Hawkshaw Rig the shepherd's son
Weaves, to the murmur of melodious streams,
What tales he learned beside his mother's knee,
But somewhere on a lily-blossomed lea,
He leads the pure Kilmeny gently on,
And finds another friend to share his dreams.
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