Horace in Homespun by Hugh Haliburton [i.e. J. L. Robertson] A New Edition with Illustrations by A. S. Boyd |
Hughie's Delight in the Return of Spring. |
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Hughie's Delight in the Return of Spring.
“Audire et videor pios
Errare per lucos, amœnæ
Quos et aquæ subeunt et auræ.”
—Car. iii. 4.
Errare per lucos, amœnæ
Quos et aquæ subeunt et auræ.”
—Car. iii. 4.
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Fra whaur in fragrant wuds ye bideSecure fra winter care,
Come, gentle Spring, to Ochilside
And Ochil valleys fair.
For sweet as ony pagan spring
Are Devon's waters clear;
And life wad be a lovely thing
Gif ye were only here.
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She comes! the waffin' o' her wingsWi' music fills the air;
An' wintry thochts o' men an' things
Vex human hearts nae mair.
On Devon banks wi' me she strays,
Her poet for the while,
And Ochil brooks and Ochil braes
Grow classic in her smile!
Horace in Homespun by Hugh Haliburton [i.e. J. L. Robertson] | ||