Could make ev'n Fancy's visions fade I gazed, and felt upon my lips And though as swift as lightning's flash But duly shall my raptured song, LINES ON RECEIVING A SEAL WITH THE CAMPBELL CREST, THIS wax returns not back more fair We are not friends of yesterday;- Well! should its frailty e'er condemn What transcripts of my weal and woe In reason's calm or passion's shock. What scenes of life's yet curtain'd page Yet wheresoe'er my pen I lift Shall make its recollection sweet: Sent when the star that rules your fates And none more cordially than mine. So speed my song-mark'd with the crest The daughter of Macaillain Mor. *A Norman leader, in the service of the king of Scotland, married the heiress of Lochow in the twelfth century, and from him the Campbells are sprung. Crest of my sires! whose blood it seal'd Yet little might I prize the stone, No!-but it tells me of a heart, Allied by friendship's living tie; A prize beyond the herald's artOur soul-sprung consanguinity! Kath'rine! to many an hour of mine Light wings and sunshine you have lent, And so adieu, and still be thine GILDEROY. THE last, the fatal hour is come, The bell has toll'd: it shakes my heart; No bosom trembles for thy doom; The gallows' foot is all thy tomb, Oh, Gilderoy! bethought we then When first in Roslin's lovely glen Your locks they glitter'd to the sheen, Ah! little thought I to deplore Ye cruel, cruel, that combined A long adieu! but where shall fly When every mean and cruel eye Yes! they will mock thy widow's tears, Alas! his infant beauty wears The form of Gilderoy. Then will I seek the dreary mound ADELGITHA. THE ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, When forth a valiant champion bounded, She wept, deliver'd from her danger; "For he is in a foreign far land Whose arm should now have set me free; And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead, or false to me." "Nay! say not that his faith is tainted!"— He raised his vizor-At the sight She fell into his arms and fainted; ABSENCE. "Tis not the loss of love's assurance, The fondest thoughts two hearts can cherish, |