1.
THE Harp is mute in Ossian’s Hall,
And silence reigns o’er Morven’s woods;
No Bard laments the Hero’s fall,
No Minstrel sings by Cona’s floods.
2.
In wild Glencoe’s romantic vale
The voice of song is heard no more,
Yet oft upon the mountain gale
The Spirits of the mighty roar!
3.
Yes! on those mountains’ misty height,
Where Nature reigns in pomp sublime,
By the pale Moon’s half-clouded light
They mark th’ unceasing lapse of Time.
4.
By Cona’s stream what gentle form
Is seen to glide at twilight hour,
Or midst the raging of the Storm
Smiles at the Tempest’s awful power?
5.
‘Tis she! the pride of Ossian’s strain,
Malvina, with the tearful eye!
Her shadowy form still roams the plain,
In wild Glencoe, still her’s the sigh!
6.
In Fingal’s Cave no Echoes swell
With dulcet songs of “other times,”
In other lands the muses dwell,
And wake the lyre in distant climes.
7.
E’en he , who raised Loch Katrine’s fame,
Who sung the Bruce’s deeds of war,
Has gone to Albion, there to claim
The tribute due to Genius rare!
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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