Humbly I offer up our holier prayer! But in thy mercy, to confound Lighten their darkness with thy Gospel light, Assuage their malice thus! Keswick, 1821. ODE WRITTEN AFTER THE KING'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. 1. AT length hath Scotland seen Hath gladden'd once again Her ancient palace, desolate how long! Highland and lowland, glen and fertile carse, By the free impulse of the loyal heart 2. Land of the loyal, as in happy hour In happy hour for thee Forsaken, under favouring stars, when James 3. A more auspicious union never Earth Than when, their mutual wrongs forgiven, 4. Slowly by time matured And rapine unrestrain❜d And quiet industry, and frugal wealth ; 5. Such blessings for her dowry Scotland drew She brought security and strength, True hearts, and strenuous hands, and noble minds. And let tell Victory From that Brabantine field, The proudest field of fame! 6. Speak ye, too, Works of peace; Which shall be heard by ages! The proud Bridge, A bending line suspended, shall o'erhang By Merlin's mighty magic there sustain'd; The laden barge pursues its even way, Repel the assailing billows, and protect Ye stately monuments of Britain's power, See the stupendous works, and Rennie's name, 7. Him too may I attest for Scotland's praise, The mightiest element That lies within the scope of man's controul; Prolific spring, and dimly yet discern'd The mariner no longer seeks Wings from the wind; creating now the power Right on across the ocean-flood he steers And reaching now the inmost continent, Up rapid streams, innavigable else, Ascends with steady progress, self-propell'd. 8. Nor hath the Sister kingdom borne Alone, her noble part; There is an empire which survives The wreck of thrones, the overthrow of realms, The downfall, and decay, and death Of Nations. Such an empire in the mind Of intellectual man Rome yet maintains, and elder Greece, and such By indefeasible right Hath Britain made her own. How fair a part doth Caledonia claim |