Example V.—­“Lochiel’s Warning.”—­Ten Lines from Eighty-six.

   “’Tis the sun | -set of life | gives me mys | -tical lore,
    And com | -ing events | cast their shad | -ows before. 
    I tell | thee, Cullo | -den’s dread ech | -oes shall ring
    With the blood | -hounds that bark | for thy fu | -gitive king. 
    Lo! anoint | -ed by Heav’n | with the vi | -als of wrath,
    Behold, | where he flies | on his des | -olate path! 
    Now, in dark | -ness and bil | -lows he sweeps | from my sight;
    Rise! rise! | ye wild tem | -pests, and cov | -er his flight! 
    ’Tis fin | -ished.  Their thun | -ders are hushed | on the moors;
    Cullo | -den is lost, | and my coun | -try deplores.”—­Ib., p. 89.

Example VI.—­“The Exile of Erin.”—­The First of Five Stanzas.

   “There came | to the beach | a poor Ex | -ile of E | -r~in,
      The dew | on his thin | robe was heav | -y and chill;
    For his coun | -try he sighed, | when at twi | -light repair | -_~ing_
      To wan | -der alone | by the wind | -beaten hill. 
    But the day | -star attract | -ed his eye’s | sad devo | -t~ion,
      For it rose | o’er his own | native isle | of the o | -c~ean,
    Where once, | in the fire | of his youth | -ful emo | t~ion,
      He sang | the bold an | -them of E | -rin go bragh.”—­Ib., p. 116.

 Example VII.—­“The Poplar Field."

“The pop | -lars are fell’d, | farewell | to the shade, And the whis | -pering sound | of the cool | colonnade; The winds | play no lon | -ger and sing | in the leaves, Nor Ouse | on his bo | -som their im | -age receives. Twelve years | have elaps’d, | since I last | took a view Of my fa | -vourite field, | and the bank | where they grew; And now | in the grass | behold | they are laid, And the tree | is my seat | that once lent | me a shade. The black | -bird has fled | to anoth | -er retreat, Where the ha | -zels afford | him a screen | from the heat, And the scene, | where his mel | -ody charm’d | me before, Resounds | with his sweet | -flowing dit | -ty no more. My fu | -gitive years | are all hast | -ing away, And I | must ere long | lie as low | -ly as they, With a turf | on my breast, | and a stone | at my head, Ere anoth | -er such grove | shall arise | in its stead.  ’Tis a sight | to engage | me, if an | -y thing can, To muse | on the per | -ishing pleas | -ures of man; Though his life | be a dream, | his enjoy | -ments, I see, Have a be | -ing less dur | -able e | -ven than he.” 
    COWPER’S Poems, Vol. i, p. 257.

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