JAMES HOGG. A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbor, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning, When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning? JAMES HOGG. [1772-1835-] WHEN MAGGY GANGS AWAY. O, WHAT Will a' the lads do Young Jock has ta'en the hill for 't, Poor Harry's ta'en the bed for 't, The young laird o' the Lang Shaw And that is mair in maiden's praise The wailing in our green glen That day will quaver high, THE RAPTURE OF KILMENY. 121 BONNY Kilmeny gaed up the glen; For Kilmeny was pure as pure could be. Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet, or Kilmeny come hame! Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face; "T will draw the redbreast frae the wood, As still was her look, and as still was The laverock frae the sky; The fairies frae their beds o' dew Will rise and join the lay, An' hey! what a day 't will be When Maggy gangs away? her e'e, As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea, Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea. For Kilmeny had been she knew not | And the sigh that heaves a bosom sae fair! where, And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare. Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew, Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew ; But it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung, And the airs of heaven played round her tongue, When she spake of the lovely forms she had seen, And a land where sin had never been, - And dear to Heaven the words of truth, And the praise of virtue frae beauty's mouth! That her youth and beauty never might fade; And they smiled on heaven, when they saw her lie To tell of the place where she had been, And the glories that lay in the land un seen; |