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CLYDE;
Nor on her hills or dales Arcadia views
More graceful swains, or dearer to the muse: 160
What pastoral bard with Ramsay can compare,
Ramsay the favourite of the British fair;
And here the poet breathed his earliest strains,
And learned to warble love's delightful pains.
Now Bagbie rises graceful o'er the flood,
And Lammington, of ancient heroes proud.
These fair possessions fate to beauties gave,
Just, to reward the sage, the learned, and brave.
To godlike Wallace, one resigned her charms,
When Biggar's field confest the chieftain's arms. 170
For as an eagle pounces from the sky,
Where in their fold devoted lambkins lie,
From Tinto, darting on the tented plain,
He heap'd the sanguine field with hills of slain.
Their generous offspring blest with her embrace,
A high-born youth of Baliol's royal race.
A knight of Hyndford's noble lineage led,
Another graceful heiress to his bed;
And sage Dundas, who skilfully presides
O'er judges, and the course of justice guides, 180
Espous'd her daughter, who supremely shone
In every charm that graceful females own.
More graceful swains, or dearer to the muse: 160
What pastoral bard with Ramsay can compare,
Ramsay the favourite of the British fair;
And here the poet breathed his earliest strains,
And learned to warble love's delightful pains.
Now Bagbie rises graceful o'er the flood,
And Lammington, of ancient heroes proud.
These fair possessions fate to beauties gave,
Just, to reward the sage, the learned, and brave.
To godlike Wallace, one resigned her charms,
When Biggar's field confest the chieftain's arms. 170
For as an eagle pounces from the sky,
Where in their fold devoted lambkins lie,
From Tinto, darting on the tented plain,
He heap'd the sanguine field with hills of slain.
Their generous offspring blest with her embrace,
A high-born youth of Baliol's royal race.
A knight of Hyndford's noble lineage led,
Another graceful heiress to his bed;
And sage Dundas, who skilfully presides
O'er judges, and the course of justice guides, 180
Espous'd her daughter, who supremely shone
In every charm that graceful females own.
