Protected industry beneath thy reign To public plenty, private ease di Leads all the virtues in her filial train; Courageous Probity, with browserene; Contentment, Moderation, Labor, lates, Domestic peace, to harmony of states. And sweeps, with forceful arm, to Kings from the earth and pirates from the waves. LADY ANNE BARNARD. AULD ROBIN GRAY. WHEN the sheep are in the fauld, when the cows come hame, The woes of my heart fa' in showers frae my ee, Young Jamie loo'd me weel, and sought me for his bride, Before he had been gane a twelvemonth and a day, My father cou'dna work my mother cou'dna spin; My heart it said na, and I looked for Jamie back; My father argued sair- my mother didna speak, I hadna been his wife, a week but only four, Till he said, I'm come hame, my love, to marry thee!" O sair, sair did we greet, and mickle say of a'; I gang like a ghaist, and I carena much to spin. SLOWLY I circle the dim, dizzy stair, Wrapt in my cloak's gray fold, Holding my heart lest it throb totheair Its radiant secret, for though I be old, Though I totter and rock like a ship in the wind, And the sunbeams come unto me broken and blind, But their ears only hear mighty melodies ringing, And their souls never know 'tis my angel there singing, That the grand organ-angel awakes in his cell Under my spell. There in the midst of the wandering pipes, Far from the gleaming keys, Yet my spirit drinks youth from And the organ-front with its gilded the treasure we hold, Richer than gold. stripes, My glorious angel lies sleeping at ease. Princes below me, lips wet from the And the hand of a stranger may beat wine, at his gate, And the ear of a stranger may listen Time from her form hath ta'en away The faded form is often mark'd A sense of slight of loneliness She look'd upon her raven locks,— For banquet or for ball; They brought back thoughts of early youth, Ere she had learn'd to check, With artificial wreaths, the curls That sported o'er her neck. |