Lines on the blank leaf of a Bible, . Lines written on the Author's Birth-day, On receiving Intelligence of a young Friend's Death in India, Imaginary Apostrophe of Buonaparte, J. Malcolm, Esq. 220 Landing of the British Army in Portugal,. Sir W. Scott 216 49 74 And it hath gone into the grave of time, And thou hast walked about, (how strange a story,) And what is life?-an hour-glass on the run, As gilded barks that hover near, At evening when the sun went down, Beneath our feet, and o'er our head, Bonny Kilmeny gaed up the glen, Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Brother thou art gone before us, By others, blest with genius' rays, Child of the dust, I heard thee mourn, Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Farewell! if ever fondest prayer, .......................... Farewell to the land, where the gloom of my glory, Fierce passions discompose the mind, .................................... |