When ance life's day araws near the gloamin', | Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, Then fareweel vacant careless roamin'; An' fareweel cheerfu' tankards foamin', In cent. per cent But give me real, sterling wit, An' I'm content. POEMS. That, to adore. Here Doon pour'd down his far-fetch'd floods; | This, all its source and end to draw, Brydon's brave ward I well could spy, Who call'd on Fame, low standing by, Where many a patriot-name on high, DUAN SECOND. WITH musing-deep, astonish'd stare, When with an elder sister's air She did me greet. All hail! my own inspired bard! I come to give thee such reward Know, the great genius of this land His COUNTRY'S SAVIOUR,+ mark him well! Has many a light, aerial band, Bold Richardton's heroic swell; And he whom ruthless fates expel His native land. There, where a sceptred Pictish shade || Thro' many a wild, romantic grove,¶ Dispensing good. With deep-struck reverential awe,** To Nature's God and Nature's law The Wallaces. ↑ William Wallace. Adam Wallace, of Richardton, cousin to the immortal preserver of Scottish independence. Who, all beneath his high command, As arts or arms they understand, Their labours ply. They Scotia's race among them share; ''Mong swelling floods of reeking gore, They, ardent, kindling spirits pour ; Or, 'mid the venal senate's roar, They, sightless, stand, To mend the honest patriot-lore, And grace the hand. And when the bard, or hoary sage, Hence Fullarton, the brave and young; Wallace, Laird of Craigie, who was second in com. Coilus, King of the Picts, from whom the district of Kyle is said to take its name, lies buried, as tradition says, near the family seat of the Montgomeries of Coilsfield, where his burial-place is still shown. Barskimming, the seat of the late Lord Justice Clerk. Catrine, the seat of the late Doctor, and present Professor Stewart. The sceptic's bays. To lower orders are assign'd • Colonel Fullarton. |