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Then homeward all take off their several way;
The youngling cottagers retire to rest;
The parent-pair their secret homage pay,

And proffer up to Heaven the warm request,
That He who stills the raven's clamorous nest,
And decks the lily fair in flowery pride,
Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,

For them and for their little ones provide;
But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings: "An honest man's the noblest work of God." And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!

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O Scotia, my dear, my native soil,

For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil

Be blessed with health and peace, and sweet content! And, oh, may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while,

And stand, a wall of fire, around their much-loved isle.

O Thou who poured the patriotic tide

That streamed through Wallace's undaunted heart, Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride,

Or nobly die, the second glorious part!

(The patriot's God peculiarly thou art,

His friend, inspirer, guardian, and reward :) Oh! never, never, Scotia's realm desert;

But still the patriot and the patriot-bard

In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard!

TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY,

ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOW IN APRIL, 1786.

WEE, modest, crimson-tippèd flower,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;

For I maun crush amang the stoure

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Thy slender stem:

thee now is past my power,

Thou bonnie gem.

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DISTINGUISHED POETS AND DRAMATISTS.

TO MARY IN HEAVEN.

THOU lingering star with lessening ray,
That lov'st to greet the early morn,
Again thou usher'st in the day

My Mary from my soul was torn.

O Mary, dear departed shade!

Where is thy place of blissful rest?

Seest thou thy lover lowly laid?

Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?

That sacred hour can I forget,

Can I forget the hallowed grove,
Where by the winding Ayr we met
To live one day of parting love?
Eternity can not efface

Those records dear of transports past:
Thy image at our last embrace!

Äh, little thought we 'twas our last!

Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,

O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;

The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar

Twined amorous round the raptured scene;
The flowers sprang wanton to be prest;
The birds sang love on every spray;
Till too, too soon, the glowing west
Proclaimed the speed of wingèd day.

Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes,
And fondly broods with miser care:
Time but the impression deeper makes,
As streams their channels deeper wear.

My Mary, dear departed shade!

Where is thy place of blissful rest?

Seest thou thy lover lowly laid?

Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?

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DISTINGUISHED POETS AND DRAMATISTS.

GEORGE CRABBE. -1754-1832. "The Library," "The Village," "The Newspaper,' The Parish Register," "The Borough," "Tales of the Hall."

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THOMAS MOORE.-1779-1852. Celebrated for his "Irish Melodies," "Lalla Rookh," ," "The Fudge Family in Paris," and "The Epicurean."

SAMUEL ROGERS.-1763-1855. The benevolent London banker and poet. "The Pleasures of Memory," "Columbus," "Human Life," and "Italy."

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JAMES HOGG (the Ettrick Shepherd). - 1770-1835. "The Queen's Wake," "Madoc of the Moor," The Pilgrims of the Sun;" other poems, and several novels. JAMES MONTGOMERY.— 1771-1854. "Greenland," "The Pelican Island," "The Wanderer in Switzerland," "The West Indies," "Prison Amusements," "The World before the Flood," and other poems.

FELICIA HEMANS. -1793-1835. "The Forest Sanctuary," "The Voice of Spring," ," "The Graves of a Household," "The Palm-Tree," "The Sunbeam," and many popular pieces; "The Vespers of Palermo," a tragedy.

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.— 1792-1822. "Queen Mab," Alastor," The Revolt of Islam," "Prometheus Unbound,' "The Cenci," "The Cloud," "The Skylark," and "The Sensitive Plant," are full of beauty of thought and expression.

1795-1820.

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JOHN KEATS. and "The Eve of St. Agnes." A young poet of high promise. HENRY KIRKE WHITE.-1785-1806. A volume of poems. LEIGH HUNT.-1784-1859. Genial and graceful poet and critic. "A Story of Rimini," "The Palfrey," ," "A Legend of Florence;" essays, sketches, and memoirs. REGINALD HEBER.-1783-1826. "Palestine; " " Europe, or Lines on the Present War;" hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." ROBERT TANNAHILL. -1774-1810. Some Scottish songs.

“Endymion," "Hyperion,' Lamia," "Isabella,"

HANNAH MORE. -1745-1833. "The Inflexible Captive," "Percy," and "The Fatal Falsehood," tragedies; "Cœlebs in Search of a Wife;" and many other popular tales and prose works.

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RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. "The School for Scandal;" Hastings."

JOANNA BAillie.

1762-1851. Several volumes of plays, minor poems, and

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songs, among which are De Montfort" and "Count Basil."

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MICHAEL BRUCE.-1746-1767. "Lochleven," "An Elegy written in Spring." Sir WILLIAM JONES. 1746-1794. "Song of Hafiz," "Hindoo Wife."

JOHN LOGAN. 1748-1788. "The Cuckoo," "The Country in Autumn," Runnymede."

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JAMES and HORACE SMITH.

GEORGE CROLY. Catiline," ""Salathiel."

"Psyche, in six cantos."

"Scenes of Infancy," "The Mermaid," "Ode to

- 1775-1839. "Rejected Addresses."

1780-1860. "Paris in 1815," "Angel of the World,"

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.-1784-1842. "Scottish Songs," "Sir Marmaduke Maxwell," ," "The Maid of Elvan," "Life of Wilkie."

WILLIAM TENNANT. Down of the Cathedral."

-1785-1848. "Anster Fair," "Thane of Fife," "Dinging

EBENEZER ELLIOTT. 1781-1749. "Corn-law Rhymes."

RICHARD BARHAM.-1788-1845. "Ingoldsby Legends," "My Cousin Nicho

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"The West-Indian,” "The Wheel of

"The Jealous Wife," "The Clandestine

"The Road to Ruin," "The Deserted

GEORGE COLMAN the Younger.-1762-1836. "John Bull," "Heir-at-Law," "Poor Gentleman,' "Newcastle Apothecary," "Lodgings for Single Gentlemen." CHARLES R. MATURIN. - Died in 1824. Bertram," a tragedy; "Women."

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EDMUND BURKE.

1730-1797.

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One of the first of English orators and statesmen, author of the celebrated "Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful," Reflections on the Revolution in France," and other essays and orations.

CHARACTER OF JUNIUS.

WHERE, Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws and of all government? How comes this Junius to have broken through the cobwebs of the law, and to range uncontrolled, unpunished, through the land? The myrmidons of the court have been long, and are still, pursuing him in vain. They will not spend their time upon me or you: no! they disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest, that has broken through all their toils, is before them. But what will all their efforts avail? No sooner has he wounded one than he lays down another dead at his feet. For my part, when I saw his attack upon the king, I own my blood ran cold. I thought he had ventured too far, and that there was an end of his triumphs. Not that he had not asserted many truths: yes, sir, there are in that composition many bold truths by which a wise prince might profit. But, while I expected from this daring flight his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both Houses of Parliament! Yes, he did make you his

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