Scotch Poetry Consisting of Songs, Odes, Anthems, and Epigrams. By Alexander Rodger |
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[Fair rose the gay morn with the sun mildly beaming] |
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[Fair rose the gay morn with the sun mildly beaming]
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The Following Song Was written for and sung at an Anniversary Meeting held by the Friends of Freedom in Glasgow, to commemorate the Liberation of the State Prisoners in Edinburgh Castle, in 1817.
Fair rose the gay morn with the sun mildly beaming,
The day, sympathetic, smiled sweetly serene,
When Liberty's rays, through the dark prison streaming,
Shed freedom and light on the captive again;
Then throbb'd each true heart with delightful emotion,
Then glisten'd the joy-drops on every glad face,
While Tyranny's minions received their sad portions
Of shame, consternation, defeat, and disgrace.
The day, sympathetic, smiled sweetly serene,
When Liberty's rays, through the dark prison streaming,
Shed freedom and light on the captive again;
Then throbb'd each true heart with delightful emotion,
Then glisten'd the joy-drops on every glad face,
While Tyranny's minions received their sad portions
Of shame, consternation, defeat, and disgrace.
That day has return'd, and we hail it with pleasure,
A day fraught with triumph to every good man;
When innocence baffled each hell-hatched measure
That guilt, clothed in power, could malignantly plan.
Then let us enjoy it as rational creatures,
As beings who pant that blest era to see,
When Man, grown indignant at trammel and fetters,
Shall spring to new being—be happy and free!
A day fraught with triumph to every good man;
When innocence baffled each hell-hatched measure
That guilt, clothed in power, could malignantly plan.
Then let us enjoy it as rational creatures,
As beings who pant that blest era to see,
When Man, grown indignant at trammel and fetters,
Shall spring to new being—be happy and free!
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