1 saw the gloomy ocean laugh, I saw thy canvas catch the breeze My silken laces nine, As I lost sight of thy good ship, My gallant Roland Cheyne. All by the salt sea-wave I sat- Sang at my foot, I sigh'd, and said, THE TEARS I SHED MUST EVER FALL. MRS. DUGALD STEWART. The tears I shed must ever fall, I weep not for the silent dead, Their toils are past, their sorrows o'er ; And those they loved their steps shall tread, And death shall join to part no more. Though boundless oceans roll'd between, But bitter, bitter are the tears Of her who slighted love bewails; The flatt'ring veil is rent aside; The flame of love burns to destroy. In vain does memory renew The hours once ting'd in transport's dye; The sad reverse soon starts to view, And turns the past to agony. E'en time itself despairs to cure Those pangs to ev'ry feeling due; Ungenerous youth! thy boast how poor, To win a heart-and break it too. No cold approach, no alter'd mien, Just what would make suspicion start; pause the dire extremes between, No He made me blest-and broke my heart. From hope, the wretched's anchor, torn, Neglected and neglecting all; Friendless, forsaken, and forlorn, The tears I shed must ever fall. THE HILLS O' GALLOWA'. THOMAS CUNNINGHAM. Amang the birks sae blythe an' gay, spray, The lammies loupit on the lawn; On ilka howm the sward was mawn, The braes wi' gowans buskit bra', An gloamin's plaid o' gray was thrawn Out owre the hills o' Gallowa'. Wi' music wild the woodlands rang, An' fragrance wing'd alang the lea, As down we sat the flowers amang, An' saftly slade the hours awa', It isna owsen, sheep, an' kye, The warld's drumlie gloom to cheer Ye powers wha rowe this yirthen ba', An' O! sae blythe thro' life I'll steer, Amang the hills o' Gallowa'. Whan gloamin' dauners up the hill, An' our gudeman ca's hame the yowes, Wi' her I'll trace the mossy rill That owre the muir meand'ring rowes; Or tint amang the scroggy knowes, My birken pipe I'll sweetly blaw, An' sing the streams, the straths, and howes, The hills an' dales o' Gallowa'. An' whan auld Scotland's heathy hills, Awake nae mair my canty strains; Whare friendship dwells an' freedom reigns, Whare heather blooms an' muircocks craw, O! dig my grave, and hide my banes Amang the hills o' Gallowa'. ADELGITHA. THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ. The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, She wept, deliver'd from the danger; For he is in a foreign far land, Whose arm should now have set me free; And I must wear the willow garland Nay, say not that his faith is tainted!- It was indeed her own true knight. |