HOPE AND LOVE. ONE day, through Fancy's telescope, They rambled on o'er vale and hill, For climate or for weather? All scenes to them were bright and fair, HOPE AND LOVE. Sometimes they turn'd aside to bless On Beauty's quiet slumbers. "Fly on," said Wisdom, with cold sneers; "I teach my friends to doubt you:" "Come back," said Age, with bitter tears, "My heart is cold without you." When Poverty beset their path, And showing taste for bread and milk, They met stern Danger in their way, Upon a ruin scated; Before him kings had quaked that day, But he was robed in such a cloud, As Love and Hope came near him, That though he thunder'd long and loud, They did not see or hear him. A gray-beard join'd them, Time by name; And Love was nearly crazy, To find that he was very lame, And also very lazy : Hope, as he listen'd to her tale, Tied wings upon his jacket; And then they far outran the mail, And far outsail'd the packet. HOPE AND LOVE. And so, when they had safely pass'd "I leave you here," quoth Father Time, As hoarse as any raven; And Love kneel'd down to spell the rhyme But Hope look'd onward, calmly brave, We're parted on this side the grave, We'll meet upon the other." WITHIN A MILE OF EDINBRO'. Jocky was a wag that never would wed, And merrily turn'd up the grass. Bonnie Jocky, blythe and free, Won her heart right merrily: Yet still she blush'd, and frowning cried, "No, no, it will not do; I cannot, cannot, wonnot, wonnot, mannot buckle to." But when he vow'd he would make her his bride, Though his flocks and herds were not few, She gave him her hand, and a kiss beside, And vow'd she 'd for ever be true. Bonnie Jocky, blythe and free, Won her heart right merrily: At church she no more frowning said, "No, no, it will not do; I cannot, cannot, wonnot, wonnot, mannot buckle to." |