CONJUGAL AFFECTION. Yes, thou art changed since first we met, The charms that once were thine: For, Marian, well the cause I know And bade thy bloom and spirits fly :— O'er my sick couch I saw thee bend, With soft incessant care. Then, trust me, love! that pallid face Can boast a sweeter charm for me, A truer, tenderer, dearer grace Than blooming health bestowed on thee; For these thy well-timed love I see, And read my blessings there. Opie STANZAS, Occasioned by visiting the City and Ruins of St Andrew's. In ancient time, near the wide ocean-strand, Far shadowed out upon the golden sand ;- Might shew how kingly strength and wisdom flourished there. No consecrated groves, or rivers bright, No lovely vallies circled it around; But cliffs on which the eagle would alight, Or lonely hermits secret refuge found; Whilst far along the rocky cape there lay, With vessels anchored deep, a wild and troubled bay. prey, Her stately gates beneath their arches sweep Bore Scotland's banner, and the badge of power Their citied strength would be-so suddenly unwalled. Then on those battlements the sun arose, Monarchs would there the sword and sceptre wield, Whilst holier men, for Jesus' sake divine, Their wretched lives in sacrifice would yield And clad in armour, leave their Saviour's shrine, To tread the holy dust, and fall in Palestine. Through the cathedral's aisle, and vaulted dome, STANZAS, Occasioned by visiting the City and Ruins of St Andrew's. In ancient time, near the wide ocean-strand, Far shadowed out upon the golden sand ;- Her cloistered courts, for learning to repair, Might shew how kingly strength and wisdom flourished 1 there. No consecrated groves, or rivers bright, No lovely vallies circled it around; But cliffs on which the eagle would alight, And hollow caverns stretching under ground, Whilst far along the rocky cape there lay, With vessels anchored deep, a wild and troubled bay. 212 für 4 gate, beneath their grehog wip were seat closed: upon its rocky s p Depands banner, and the bad to of pheny at the strength would be so suddenly smotroller" Zato trusse battlements the sum more, 1 Tys as from a fiery shield, Tose one appalled the fieyance of the ipfi, ve Te wood in many a hotela Boldl at armour, leave their sqelour" -, hrana, Tea he inly dust, and fall in Palestiya Trong the cathedral's siela, and vomitad de ene And the tall tapers burning dualy Blunt, |