'Then turn to-night, and freely share Whate'er my cell bestows; My rushy couch and frugal fare, 'No flocks that range the valley free Taught by that power that pities me, 'But from the mountain's A guiltless feast I bring; grassy side A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong: Soft as the dew from heaven descends, Far in a wilderness obscure No stores beneath its humble thatch And now, when busy crowds retire And spread his vegetable store, Around in sympathetic mirth But nothing could a charm impart His rising cares the Hermit spied, "From better habitations spurned, Or grieve for friendship unreturned, 'Alas! the joys that fortune brings And those who prize the paltry things, And what is friendship but a name, A shade that follows wealth or fame, 'And love is still an emptier sound, "For shame, fond youth, thy sorrows hush, And spurn the sex,' he said: Surprised, he sees new beauties rise, The bashful look, the rising breast, 'And, ah! forgive a stranger rude, But let a maid thy pity share, My father lived beside the Tyne, And all his wealth was marked as mine, 'To win me from his tender arms Unnumbered suitors came; Who praised me for imputed charms, 'Each hour a mercenary crowd In humble, simplest habit clad, 'And when beside me in the dale 'The blossom opening to the day, 'The dew, the blossoms of the tree, "For still I tried each fickle art, And while his passion touched my heart, I triumphed in his pain. 'Till quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride; And sought a solitude forlorn In secret where he died. 'But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, I'll seek the solitude he sought, < And there forlorn, despairing hid, N 'Forbid it, heaven!', the Hermit cried, Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long lost Edwin here, 'Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And shall we never, never part, 'No, never from this hour to part, The sigh that rends thy constant heart 66 THE FATE OF MACGREGOR, MACGREGOR, Macgregor, remember our foemen; "The moon rises broad from the brow of Ben-Lomond ; "The clans are impatient and chide thy delay; "Arise! let us bound to Glen-Lyon away." Stern scowled the Macgregor, then silent and sullen, He turned his red eye to the braes of Strathfillan ; "Go, Malcolm, to sleep, let the clans be dismissed; "The Campbells this night for Macgregor must rest."— "Macgregor, Macgregor, our scouts have been flying, "Three days, round the hills of M'Nab and Glen-Lyon; "Of riding and running such tidings they bear, We must meet them at home, else they'll quickly be here." "The Campbell may come, as his promises bind him, "And haughty M'Nab, with his giants behind him; |