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Bright as the sun when from the cloud
He comes as cocks are crowing loud;
Now running, shouting, 'mid sunbeams,
Now groping trouts in lucid streams,
Now spinning like a mill-wheel round,
Now hunting echo's empty sound,
Now climbing up some old tall tree-
For climbing sake. 'Tis sweet to thee
To sit where birds can sit alone,
Or share with thee thy venturous throne.

Child of the town and bustling street, What woes and snares await thy feet! Thy paths are paved for five long miles, Thy groves and hills are peaks and tiles; Thy fragrant air is yon thick smoke, Which shrouds thee like a mourning cloak; And thou art cabin'd and confined,

At once from sun, and dew, and wind;

Or set thy tottering feet but on

Thy lengthen'd walks of slippery stone;
The coachman there careering reels

With goaded steeds and maddening wheels;
And Commerce pours each poring son
In pelf's pursuit and hollos' run :
While flush'd with wine, and stung at play,
Men rush from darkness into day.

The stream's too strong for thy small bark;
There nought can sail, save what is stark.

Fly from the town, sweet child! for health Is happiness, and strength, and wealth. There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower;

On every herb on which you tread
Are written words which, rightly read,
Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod,
To hope, and holiness, and God.

AWAKE, MY LOVE!

AWAKE, my love! ere morning's ray
'Throws off night's weed of pilgrim gray;
Ere yet the hare, cower'd close from view,
Licks from her fleece the clover dew:
Or wild swan shakes her snowy wings,
By hunters roused from secret springs :
Or birds upon the boughs awake,
Till green Arbigland's woodlands shake.

She comb'd her curling ringlets down,
Laced her green jupes, and clasp'd her shoon;
And from her home, by Preston-burn,

Came forth the rival light of morn.

The lark's song dropp'd,-now loud, now hush,—

The goldspink answer'd from the bush;

The plover, fed on heather crop,

Call'd from the misty mountain top.

'Tis sweet, she said, while thus the day
Grows into gold from silvery gray,
To hearken heaven, and bush, and brake,
Instinct with soul of song awake;—
To see the smoke, in many a wreath,
Stream blue from hall and bower beneath,
Where yon blithe mower hastes along
With glittering scythe and rustic song.

Yes, lovely one! and dost thou mark
The moral of yon carolling lark?

Tak'st thou from Nature's counsellor tongue
The warning precept of her song?

Each bird that shakes the dewy grove
Warms its wild note with nuptial love;
The bird, the bee, with various sound,
Proclaim the sweets of wedlock round.

THE LASS OF GLENESLAN-MILL.

THE laverock loves the dewy light,
The bee the balmy foxglove fair;
The shepherd loves the glowing morn,
When song and sunshine fill the air:
But I love best the summer moon,
With all her stars, pure streaming still;
For then, in light and love I meet

The sweet lass of Gleneslan-mill.

The violets lay their blossoms low,
Beneath her white foot, on the plain;
Their fragrant heads the lilies wave,
Of her superior presence fain.
O might I clasp her to my heart,
And of her ripe lips have my will!
For loath to woo, and long to win,
Was she by green Gleneslan-mill.

Mute was the wind, soft fell the dew,

O'er Blackwood brow bright glow'd the moon;

Rills murmur'd music, and the stars

Refused to set our heads aboon :

Ye might have heard our beating hearts,
Our mixing breaths,—all was so still,
Till morning's light shone on her locks,—
Farewell, lass of Gleneslan-mill.

Wert thou an idol all of gold,

Had I the eye of worldish care,—
I could not think thee half so sweet.
Look on thee so, or love thee mair.
Till death's cold dewdrop dim mine eye,

This tongue be mute, this heart lie still,—
Thine every wish of joy and love,
My lass of green Gleneslan-mill!

THE POET'S BRIDAL-DAY SONG.

O! My love's like the steadfast sun,
Or streams that deepen as they run:
Nor hoary hairs, nor forty years,
Nor moments between sighs and fears;
Nor nights of thought, nor days of pain,
Nor dreams of glory dreamed in vain,—
Nor mirth, nor sweetest song which flows
To sober joys and soften woes,

Can make my heart or fancy flee

One moment, my sweet wife, from thee.

Even while I muse, I see thee sit
In maiden bloom and matron wit;
Fair, gentle, as when first I sued
Ye seem, but of sedater mood:

Yet
my heart leaps as fond for thee
As when, beneath Arbigland tree,

We stayed and wooed, and thought the moon Set on the sea an hour too soon;

Or lingered 'mid the falling dew,

When looks were fond, and words were few.

Though I see smiling at thy feet

Five sons and ae fair daughter sweet;
And time, and care, and birth-time woes
Have dimmed thine eye, and touched thy rose:
To thee, and thoughts of thee, belong
All that charms me of tale or song;
When words come down like dews unsought,
With gleams of deep enthusiast thought;
And fancy in her heaven flies free,—
They come, my love, they come from thee.

O, when more thought we gave of old
To silver than some give to gold,

'Twas sweet to sit and ponder o'er

What things should deck our humble bower!
'Twas sweet to pull, in hope, with thee,
The golden fruit from fortune's tree;
And sweeter still, to choose and twine
A garland for these locks of thine;
A song-wreath which may grace my Jean,
While rivers flow, and woods are green.

At times there come, as come there ought,
Grave moments of sedater thought,—
When fortune frowns, nor lends our night
One gleam of her inconstant light;
And hope, that decks the peasant's bower,
Shines like the rainbow through the shower:
O then I see, while seated nigh,

A mother's heart shine in thine eye;

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