Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839. Excerpt: ... URGE ME NOT HENCE. Urge me not hence from the silent night, To the glittering dance in the festive hall, For here is a canopy stately and bright, And lovelier far than the carved wall. I would not flaunt in the gorgeous throng, For the heart that I sigh for beateth not there, And how could I smile at the flowing song, When my breast for another was wasting with care? The forest leaves in the passing wind As it floats thro' the glade to the river's shrine, A music more apt to the weary mind, Than the warbling of thousands, tho' all but divine. AN EVENING RAMBLE. How sweet to wander o'er the flowery mead, Where the pale cowslip lifts its sickly head, Where boyhood wander'd, and where youthful care Was all forgotten when each friend was there! Ah! happy days, which time hath stolen away, And left us here to wail our loss the day! Sad wanders on that smooth and silent stream, On whose fair surface forest groves aye gleam, 'Neath craggy cliff, and high impending wood, Heighten'd by moors full many a dreary rood, While frowns the crag o'er which proud Romille ran, With many a knight and chiefs of many a clan; When the high hills rung to their hunting horn, Which scar'd the herons from the marsh at morn. Peace to thy valley, O, most lovely Aire! And to the halls that stand majestic there; Let music's notes be heard upon the breeze, Sigh to thy hills and float among the trees: Let village milk maids dance upon the lawn, And hail the coming of the blithesome dawn. Shrill be the shepherd's pipe, and gay his love, As forth at evening o'er the fields they rove. O, let not discord's foully jarring lyre Be heard to echo with infernal fire, As once it did when foul contentious strife Robb'd England's glory and its sons of life. O! shame to thee, disloyal, heartless town...
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