Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . so dead, SiR^ Waltei\_ Scott. ^ >> REATHES there the man, with soul-<P Who never to himseU hath said, This is my own, my native land !Whose heart hath neer within him home his footsteps he hath turnedI, From wandering on a foreign strand !—• If such there breathe, go, mark him well,For him no minstrel raptures swell;High though his titles, proud his his wealth as wish can claim ;Despite those titles, power, and wretch concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair , doubly dying, shall go downTo th
Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . so dead, SiR^ Waltei\_ Scott. ^ >> REATHES there the man, with soul-<P Who never to himseU hath said, This is my own, my native land !Whose heart hath neer within him home his footsteps he hath turnedI, From wandering on a foreign strand !—• If such there breathe, go, mark him well,For him no minstrel raptures swell;High though his titles, proud his his wealth as wish can claim ;Despite those titles, power, and wretch concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair , doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can eer untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! I4S PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. The Worlds Way. Shakespeap^^.. RED with all these, for restful death I cry-^ As, to behold desert a beggar born,I And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority,And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,And simple truth miscalled simplicity,And captive Good attending captain 111 :- Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,Save that to die, I leave my Love alone.
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