"THE HUNTING TRIBES OF AIR AND EARTH RESPECT THE BRETHREN OF THEIR BIRTH;

MAN, ONLY, MARS KIND NATURE'S PLAN, AND TURNS THE FIERCE PURSUIT ON MAN."-SCOTT.

"WHEN LOVERS MEET IN ADVERSE HOUR, 'TIS LIKE A SUN-GLIMPSE THROUGH A SHOWER,

ALL PRAISE BE TO MY MAKER GIVEN!-(SIR W. SCOTT)

HUNTING SONG.

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To Beauty shy, by lattice high,
Sings high-born cavalier.
The star of Love, all stars above,
Now reigns o'er earth and sky,
And high and low the influence know-
But where is County Guy?

[From Scott's "Poetical Works."]

A WATERY RAY, AN INSTANT SEEN THE DARKLY-CLOSING CLOUDS BETWEEN!"-SCOTT.

HUNTING SONG.

JAKEN, lords and ladies gay!
On the mountain dawns the day;

All the jolly chase is here,

With hawk, and horse, and hunting-spear;
Hounds are in their couples yelling,
Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
Merrily, merrily mingle they,—
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."

Waken, lords and ladies gay!

The mist has left the mountain gray,
Springlets in the dawn are streaming,
Diamonds on the brake are gleaming,
And foresters have busy been
To track the buck in thicket green;
Now we come to chant our lay,-
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."

Waken, lords and ladies gay!
To the greenwood haste away;
We can show you where he lies,
Fleet of foot, and tall of size ;

LONG SUFFERANCE IS ONE PATH TO HEAVEN!"-SCOTT.

"HIS WAS THE PATRIOT'S BURNING THOUGHT OF FREEDOM'S BATTLE BRAVELY FOUGHT,

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"GAZING ON PATHLESS GLEN AND MOUNTAIN HIGH,-(SCOTT)

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

OF CASTLES STORMED, OF CITIES FREED, OF DEEP DESIGN AND DARING DEED."-SCOTT.

Run a course as well as we;

SUBLIME BUT SAD DELIGHT THY SOUL HATH KNOWN."-SCOTT.

INDIFFERENT TO THE SUN OR SNOW, WHERE NOUGHT CAN FADE AND NOUGHT CAN BLOW,-(SCOTT)

[First published in the "Edinburgh Annual Register" for 1808.]

MAY THEY NOT MOCK A MONARCH'S FATE, RAISED HIGH 'MID STORMS OF STRIFE AND STATE?"-SCOTT.

BUT BETTER BOON BENIGNANT HEAVEN TO FAITH AND CHARITY HAS GIVEN, SIR W. SCOTT)

[From Scott's "Poetical Works."-"Characteristic of the dramatic power, the vital identification of the poet with other times and characters, in which Scott is second only to Shakespeare."-F. T. Palgrave.]

RUIN IS THEIRS, AND HIS A TOMB :-(SIR W. SCOTT)

AND BIDS THE CHRISTIAN HOPE SUBLIME TRANSCEND THE BOUNDS OF FATE AND TIME."-SCOTT.