. The poetical works of Fitz-Greene Halleck : Now first collected ; illustrated with steel engravings, from drawings by American artists . - -I ALNWICK CASTLE. 15 Fought for King George at Lexington,A major of dragoons. # # # # That last half stanza—it has dashed From my warm lip the sparkling cup;The light that oer my eyebeam flashed, The power that bore my spirit upAbove this bank-note world—is gone ;And Alnwicks but a market town,And this, alas ! its market day,And beasts and borderers throng the way ;Oxen and bleating lambs in lots,Northumbrian boors and plaided Scots, Men in the coal and
. The poetical works of Fitz-Greene Halleck : Now first collected ; illustrated with steel engravings, from drawings by American artists . - -I ALNWICK CASTLE. 15 Fought for King George at Lexington,A major of dragoons. # # # # That last half stanza—it has dashed From my warm lip the sparkling cup;The light that oer my eyebeam flashed, The power that bore my spirit upAbove this bank-note world—is gone ;And Alnwicks but a market town,And this, alas ! its market day,And beasts and borderers throng the way ;Oxen and bleating lambs in lots,Northumbrian boors and plaided Scots, Men in the coal and cattle line ;From Teviots bard and hero land,From royal Berwicks4 beach of sand,From Wooller, Morpeth, Hexham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 16 ALNWICK CASTLE. These are not the romantic timesSo beautiful in Spensers rhymes, So dazzling to the dreaming boy :Ours are the days of fact, not fable,Of knights, but not of the Round Table, Of Bailie Jarvie, not Rob Roy:Tis what our president, Monroe, Has called the era of good feeling:The Highlander, the bitterest foeTo modern laws, has felt their blow,Consented to be taxed, and vote,And pu
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