The morning purple on the hill,
  The village spire, the ivy’d tow’r,
The sparkling wheel of yonder mill,
  The grove, green field, and op’ning flow’r,
                Are lost to thee!

Dark child of Nature, as thou art! 
  Yet thy poor bosom heaves no sigh;
E’en now thy dimpling cheeks impart
  Their knowledge of some pleasure nigh:—­
                ’Tis good for thee!

Thou seem’st to say “I’ve sunshine too;
  ’Tis beaming in a spotless breast;
No shade of guilt obstructs the view,
  And there are many not so blest,
                Who day’s blush see.

“Dear are those eyes, by mine ne’er seen,
  Which I protect from many a tear;
Kind stranger! ’tis on yonder green
  A mother’s aged form I rear: 
                Oh! buy of me!”

LINES

UPON SEEING ——­

At one of the annual Banquets given in Guildhall.

Gorgeous and splendid was the sight;
From myriad lamps a fairy light
Enshrin’d in wreaths the Gothic wall,
And heav’nly music fill’d the hall!

But there was one—­(alas! that I
Had ever seen)—­the melody
Her voice surpassed, and brighter far
Her eyes than ev’ry mimic star!

I gaz’d, until, oh! thought divine! 
I fancied she I saw was mine;
But soon the beauteous vision flew—­
The stranger-form I lov’d withdrew.

Yet still she lives within my breast,
There mem’ry has her form imprest:—­
Thus, when some minstrel’s strain is done,
Sounds seem to breathe, for ever gone!

YARRIMORE.

[These Lines were written for a Lady who set them to Music.]

My poor heart flutters like the sea
  Now heaving on the sandy shore;
It seems to tell me you shall be
  Never again near Yarrimore.

Far, far beyond the waves, I bend
  Mine eyes, if I can land explore;
But o’er the waves I find no end,—­
  Yet there they say’s my Yarrimore.

The hut he built is standing still,
  Deck’d with the shells he cull’d from shore;
Our bow’r is waving on the hill,
  But where, alas! is Yarrimore?

Within that bow’r I’ll sit and sigh,
  From dawn of day till day is o’er;
And, as the wild winds o’er me fly,
  I’ll call on gentle Yarrimore!

LINES TO MISS ——­,

Upon her appearing at a Ball in an elegant Plaid Dress,

AND HAVING REPEATEDLY BEFORE EXPRESSED HER PREFERENCE
OF THE SCOTISH NATION.

Is it that plaided thus you wish to prove
How northern is the region of your love? 
Ah, Mary! tho’, within that far-fam’d clime,
Deeds have been done that mock the wreck of Time;
Tho’ there the brave have bled, or, o’er the wave,
On distant shores have found a glorious grave;