Lament For James, Earl aOf Glencairn

  Lament For James, Earl Of Glen</p>

  The wind blew hollow frae the hills,</p>

  By fits the sun's departing beam</p>

  Look'd on the fading yellow woods,</p>

  That wav'd ar's winding stream:</p>

  Beh a craigy steep, a Bard,</p>

  Laden with years and meikle pain,</p>

  In loud ment bewail'd his lord,</p>

  Whom Death had all ua'en.</p>

  He lean'd him to an a aik,</p>

  Whose trunk was mould'ring down with years;</p>

  His locks were bleached white with time,</p>

  His hoary cheek i' tears!</p>

  And as he touch'd his trembling harp,</p>

  And as he tun'd his doleful sang,</p>

  The winds, menting thro' their caves,</p>

  To Echo bore the notes ang.</p>

  “Ye scatter'd birds that faintly sing,</p>

  The reliques o' the vernal queir!</p>

  Ye woods that shed on a' the winds</p>

  The honours of the aged year!</p>

  A few short months, and gd and gay,</p>

  Again ye'll charm the ear and e'e;</p>

  But nocht in all-revolving time</p>

  gdness bring again to me.</p>

  “I am a bending aged tree,</p>

  That long has stood the wind and rain;</p>

  But now has e a cruel bst,</p>

  And my st hald of earth is gane;</p>

  Nae leaf o' mine shall greet the spring,</p>

  Nae simmer su my bloom;</p>

  But I maun lie before the storm,</p>

  And ithers pnt them in my room.</p>

  “I've seen sae mony gefu' years,</p>

  Oh I am a stranger grown:</p>

  I wander in the ways of men,</p>

  Alike unknowing, and unknown:</p>

  Unheard, unpitied, unreliev'd,</p>

  I bear ane my de o' care,</p>

  For silent, low, on beds of dust,</p>

  Lie a'</p>

  hat would my sorrows share.</p>

  “And st, (the sum of a' my griefs!)</p>

  My noble master lies in cy;</p>

  The flow'r amang our barons bold,</p>

  His try's pride, his try's stay:</p>

  In weary being now I pine,</p>

  For a' the life of life is dead,</p>

  And hope has left may aged ken,</p>

  On forward wing for ever fled.</p>

  “Awake thy st sad voice, my harp!</p>

  The voice of woe and wild despair!</p>

  Awake, resound thy test y,</p>

  Then sleep in silence evermair!</p>

  And thou, my st, best, only, friend,</p>

  That fillest an uomb,</p>

  Accept this tribute from the Bard</p>

  Thht from Fortune's mirkest gloom.</p>

  “In Poverty's low barren vale,</p>

  Thick mists obscure involv'd me round;</p>

  Though oft I turn'd the wistful eye,</p>

  Nae ray of fame was to be found:</p>

  Thou found'st me, like the m sun</p>

  That melts the fogs in limpid air,</p>

  The friendless bard and rustig</p>

  Became alike thy f care.</p>

  “O! why has worth so short a date,</p>

  While vilins ripen grey with time?</p>

  Must thou, the noble, gen'rous, great,</p>

  Fall in bold manhood's hardy prim</p>

  Why did I live to see that day—</p>

  A day to me so full of woe?</p>

  O! had I met the mortal shaft</p>

  That id my beor low!</p>

  “The bridegroom may fet the bride</p>

  Was made his wedded wife yestreen;</p>

  The monarch may fet the </p>

  That on his head an hour has been;</p>

  The mother may fet the child</p>

  That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;</p>

  But I'll remember thee, Glen,</p>

  And a' that thou hast done for me!”</p>

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