JAMES HOGG
For there they were seen on their downward plain
A thousand times and a thousand again;
In winding lake and placid firth,
Little peaceful heavens in the bosom of earth.
Kilmeny sigh'd and seem'd to grieve,
For she found her heart to that land did cleave;
She saw the corn wave on the vale.
She saw the deer run down the dale;
She saw the plaid and the broad claymore,
And the brows that the badge of freedom bore;
And she thought site had seen the land before.
She saw a lady sit on a throne, The fairest that ever the sun shone on' A lion lick'd her hand of milk, And she held him in a leish of silk; And a Icifu' maiden stood at her knee, With a silver wand and melting e'e, Her sovereign shield till love stole in And poison'd all the fount within.
Then a gruff untoward bedesman came,
And hundit the lion on hib dame;
And the guardian maid wi' the dauntless e'e,
She dropped a tear, and left her knee,
And she saw till the queen frac the lion fled,
Till the bonniest flower of the world lay dead;
A coffin was set on a distant plain,
And she saw the red blood fall like rain;
Then bonnie Kilmeny *s heart grew sair,
And she turn'd away, and could look nae mair.
leifu'] lone, wistful.
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