"THE HUNTING TRIBES OF AIR AND EARTH RESPECT THE BRETHREN OF THEIR BIRTH; MAN, ONLY, MARS KIND NATURE'S PLAN, AND TURNS THE FIERCE PURSUIT ON MAN."-SCOTT. "WHEN LOVERS MEET IN ADVERSE HOUR, 'TIS LIKE A SUN-GLIMPSE THROUGH A SHOWER, ALL PRAISE BE TO MY MAKER GIVEN!-(SIR W. SCOTT) HUNTING SONG. 385 To Beauty shy, by lattice high, [From Scott's "Poetical Works."] A WATERY RAY, AN INSTANT SEEN THE DARKLY-CLOSING CLOUDS BETWEEN!"-SCOTT. HUNTING SONG. JAKEN, lords and ladies gay! All the jolly chase is here, With hawk, and horse, and hunting-spear; Waken, lords and ladies gay! The mist has left the mountain gray, Waken, lords and ladies gay! LONG SUFFERANCE IS ONE PATH TO HEAVEN!"-SCOTT. "HIS WAS THE PATRIOT'S BURNING THOUGHT OF FREEDOM'S BATTLE BRAVELY FOUGHT, 386 "GAZING ON PATHLESS GLEN AND MOUNTAIN HIGH,-(SCOTT) SIR WALTER SCOTT. OF CASTLES STORMED, OF CITIES FREED, OF DEEP DESIGN AND DARING DEED."-SCOTT. Run a course as well as we; SUBLIME BUT SAD DELIGHT THY SOUL HATH KNOWN."-SCOTT. INDIFFERENT TO THE SUN OR SNOW, WHERE NOUGHT CAN FADE AND NOUGHT CAN BLOW,-(SCOTT) [First published in the "Edinburgh Annual Register" for 1808.] MAY THEY NOT MOCK A MONARCH'S FATE, RAISED HIGH 'MID STORMS OF STRIFE AND STATE?"-SCOTT. BUT BETTER BOON BENIGNANT HEAVEN TO FAITH AND CHARITY HAS GIVEN, SIR W. SCOTT) [From Scott's "Poetical Works."-"Characteristic of the dramatic power, the vital identification of the poet with other times and characters, in which Scott is second only to Shakespeare."-F. T. Palgrave.] RUIN IS THEIRS, AND HIS A TOMB :-(SIR W. SCOTT) AND BIDS THE CHRISTIAN HOPE SUBLIME TRANSCEND THE BOUNDS OF FATE AND TIME."-SCOTT. |