Then homeward all take off their several way; And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, For them and for their little ones provide; From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings: "An honest man's the noblest work of God." And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's ? pomp a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! O Scotia, my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blessed with health and peace, and sweet content! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, And stand, a wall of fire, around their much-loved isle. O Thou who poured the patriotic tide That streamed through Wallace's undaunted heart, Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride, Or nobly die, the second glorious part! (The patriot's God peculiarly thou art, His friend, inspirer, guardian, and reward :) Oh! never, never, Scotia's realm desert; But still the patriot and the patriot-bard In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard! TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOW IN APRIL, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tippèd flower, For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, When upward springing, blythe, to greet Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Scarce reared above the parent-earth The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. DISTINGUISHED POETS AND DRAMATISTS. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. THOU lingering star with lessening ray, My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary, dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the hallowed grove, Those records dear of transports past: Åh, little thought we 'twas our last! Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptured scene; Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, My Mary, dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? 413 DISTINGUISHED POETS AND DRAMATISTS. George Crabbe.-1754-1832. "The Library," "The Village," "The Newspaper," "The Parish Register," "The Borough," "Tales of the Hall." THOMAS MOORE.-1779-1852. Celebrated for his "Irish Melodies," "Lalla Rookh," ," "The Fudge Family in Paris," and "The Epicurean." SAMUEL ROGERS.-1763-1855. The benevolent London banker and poet. "The Pleasures of Memory," "Columbus," "Human Life," and "Italy." JAMES HOGG (the Ettrick Shepherd).. 1770-1835. "The Queen's Wake," "Madoc of the Moor," ," "The Pilgrims of the Sun;" other poems, and several novels. JAMES MONTGOMERY. — 1771-1854. "Greenland," "The Pelican Island," "The Wanderer in Switzerland," "The West Indies," "Prison Amusements," "The World before the Flood," and other poems. FELICIA HEMANS. 1793-1835. "The Forest Sanctuary," "The Voice of Spring," "The Graves of a Household," "The Palm-Tree," "The Sunbeam," and many popular pieces; "The Vespers of Palermo," a tragedy. 66 "The PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. — 1792-1822. "Queen Mab," Alastor," The Revolt of Islam," "Prometheus Unbound," "The Cenci," "The Cloud," Skylark," and The Sensitive Plant," are full of beauty of thought and ex 1795-1820. "Endymion," "Hyperion," "A Story of and "The Eve of St. Agues." "The Inflexible Captive," "Percy," and "The Fatal Falsehood," tragedies; "Colebs in Search of a Wife;" and many other popular tales and prose works. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. — 1751-1816. Dramatist, orator, and statesman. "The School for Scandal;" "The Critic," a farce; " Speech in Trial of Warren Hastings." JOANNA BAILLIE. — 1762-1851. Several volumes of plays, minor poems, and songs, among which are "De Montfort and "Count Basil." 66 MICHAEL BRUCE.-1746-1767. "Lochleven," "An Elegy written in Spring." Sir WILLIAM JONES.-1746-1794. "Song of Hafiz," "Hindoo Wife." JOHN LOGAN.-1748-1788. "The Cuckoo," "The Country in Autumn," Runnymede." ROBERT FERGUSON.-1751-1774. Bell." WILLIAM GIFFORD.- 1756-1826. "The Quarterly." WILLIAM SOTHEBY. -1757-1833. from Wieland, Virgil, Homer. "Guid Braid Claith," "To the Tron Kirk "Sonnets," "Sorrows of Switzerland," JAMES GRAHAME.-1765-1811. "The Sabbath;" "Mary, Queen of Scots." ROBERT BLoomfield. "The Farmer's Boy," "Rural Tales," 1766-1823. "Mayday with the Muses." J. HOOKHAM FRERE. 1769-1846. "Most Interesting Particulars relating to King Arthur, by the Brothers Whistlecraft." Hon. WILLIAM R. SPENCER. · -1770-1834. "Beth Gelert," and minor poems; translator of "Lenore." MARY TIGHE.-1773-1810. "Psyche, in six cantos." JOHN LEYDEN.-1775-1811. "Scenes of Infancy," “The Mermaid,” “Ode to a Gold Chain." JAMES and HORACE SMITH. — 1775-1839. GEORGE CROLY. 1780-1860. "Paris in 1815," 66 "Catiline," ""Salathiel." Angel of the World," ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.-1784-1842. "Scottish Songs," "Sir Marmaduke Maxwell," ," "The Maid of Elvan," "Life of Wilkie." WILLIAM TENNANT. - 1785-1848. "Anster Fair," "Thane of Fife," "Dinging Down of the Cathedral." CHARLES WOLFE.-1791-1823. "Burial of Sir John Moore," "Jugurtha in Prison." ROBERT POLLOK.- 1799-1827. "The Course of Time." RICHARD CUMBERLAND.-1732-1811. "The West-Indian," "The Wheel of Fortune." GEORGE COLMAN the Younger.-1762-1836. "John Bull," "Heir-at-Law," "Poor Gentleman,' ""Newcastle Apothecary," CHARLES R. MATURIN. - Died in 1824. 99 66 66 Lodgings for Single Gentlemen."' Bertram," a tragedy; "Women.” EDMUND BURKE. 1730-1797. One of the first of English orators and statesmen, author of the celebrated "Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful," "Reflections on the Revolution in France," and other essays and orations. CHARACTER OF JUNIUS. WHERE, Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws and of all government? How comes this Junius to have broken through the cobwebs of the law, and to range uncontrolled, unpunished, through the land? The myrmidons of the court have been long, and are still, pursuing him in vain. They will not spend their time upon me or you: no! they disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest, that has broken through all their toils, is before them. But what will all their efforts avail? No sooner has he wounded one than he lays down another dead at his feet. For my part, when I saw his attack upon the king, I own my blood ran cold. I thought he had ventured too far, and that there was an end of his triumphs. Not that he had not asserted many truths: yes, sir, there are in that composition many bold truths by which a wise prince might profit. But, while I expected from this daring flight his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both Houses of Parliament! Yes, he did make you his |