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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... Old Play. CHAP. XXXVI. Farewell to the land where the clouds love to rest, Like the shroud of the dead on the mountain's cold breast: To the cataract's roar where the eagles reply, And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. FROM OLD MORTALITY. (i.) And what though winter will pinch severe Through locks of gray and a cloak that's old, Yet keep up thy heart, bold cavalier, For a cup of sack shall fence the cold. For time will rust the brightest blade, And years will break the strongest bow; Was never wight so starkly made, But time and years would overthrow. Chap., xlx. (2.) VERSES FOUND, WITH A LOCK OF HAIR, IN BOTHWELL'S POCKET-BOOK. Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright, As in that well-remember'd night, When first thy mystic braid was wove, And first my Agnes whisper'd love. Since then how often hast thou press'd The torrid zone of this wild breast, Whose wrath and hate have sworn to dwell With the first sin that peopled hell; A breast whose blood's a troubled ocean. Each throb the earthquake's wild commotion!--0, if such clime thou canst endure, Yet keep thy hue unstain'd and pure, What conquest o'er each erring thought Of that fierce realm had Agnes wrought! I had not wander'd wild and wide, With such an angel for my guide; Nor heaven nor earth could then reprove me If she had lived, and lived to love me. Not then this world's wild joys had been To me one savage hunting-scene, My sole delight the headlong race, And frantic hurry of the chase; To start, pursue, and bring to bay. Rush in, drag down and rend my prey, Then--from the carcase turn away! Mine ireful mood had sweetness tamed, And soothed each wound which pride inflamed! Yes, God and man might now approve me, If thou hadst lived, and lived to love me. (3.) EPITAPH ON BALFOUR OF BURLEY. ...

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