THOU master of the tuneful art!
Who only Nature can impart;
Though on thy temples blooms the bay
Scorn not my gratulating lay.
Describ’d by thee in graceful ease,
And softening touch, the power to please
Is lent a haughty chieftain’s broils,
His ambush, depredations, spoils.
Thou shed’st upon the rugged theme,
The beauties of the poet’s dream;
While virtuous, kind emotions, thou
Bidst in their native lustre glow.
The luckless orphan, early reft
Of sire, and to misfortune left,
Feels the pure joy to which ’tis given,
Less to partake of earth than heaven;
And whilst “the Douglas to his breast,”
Presses his Ellen–is carest.
The landscape which thy pencil drew,
Arises to the reader’s view,
Who, as beneath is ample roll’d
“Loch Katrine’s sheet of burnish’d gold,”
Stands with Fitz James, “amid the brake,”
And sees “the Lady of the Lake.”
When sacred hospitable rite,
The weary stranger doth invite,
With evening chaunt, in lulling strain,
We hear the harp of Allan Bane.
(Margaret Chalmers)
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