Scotish Descriptive Poems; With Some Illustrations of Scotish Literary Antiquities
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But ah ! the wounds fo feldom felt fink deep, And ears unhaiafled long the found will keep. 240 Who heeds diftrefs, or hears the mourner's figh, Where buftling crowds bid fage refleftion fly ? Juftled and preffing through the crowded ftreet, Where cart Hops cart, and burdens burdens meet. Where hammered anvil, carriage, frame, and loom, Far-founding bell, loud mill, and thundering drum. Rudely at once the tortured ear invade. In deafening founds, tumultuoufly conveyed : Where fhining fliops dif...play their tempting doors ; Where trade prefents to fight her precious ftores ; 250 Where on the 'Change the gay-drefl; merchant fliines,. The wretch unheeded in the dungeon pines. Lo ! as each ancient edifice retires, Taller and taller fhoot the ftately fpires : 92 C L Y DE I So far the domes which modern riches raife Tranfcend the cells of good St. Mungo's days ! Prophetic feer, whofe vifionary eye Saw Glafgow's glory in the future lie ; The venerable fage, whom long of yore To Scotia's heir a PiAifh princefs bore, 26c But, nurfed in fecret in a hermit's cell, To heaven refigned, he bade the world farewell, Save when he called the fcaly brood, to bring.
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