A while wi flaunting airs he flared And thought to shine : But Nature, judging nature sneer's And ca'd it + fine. Publijh'd as the Act direct by Longman & Rees, 1. June, 1807. -Insatiate fiend! could nought allay The rebel rage 'gainst regal sway!— Not Flodden-Field, whase fatal day Brought dool and care, Whan Scotland's Flowers ware wed away,* To bloom nae mair. Nor Solway's heart-break, and disgrace, † Nor Mary's tears, nor beauteous face, Could stop, fell fae! thy furious pace Bestain'd wi' crime, Till Stuart's royal, luckless race! Fled Scotia's clime. * Alluding to the beautiful and pathetic ballad of the Flowers of the Forest.' James V. was so affected with the unfortunate and disgraceful affair at Solway Frith, near the river Esk, that he died a few days afterwards, literally of a broken heart. Mary Queen of Scotland. -Dark gloom'd the morn, owre land and sea, Whan Scotia, sad, wi' tearfu' ee, Saw, frae her pine-wav'd cliffs on hie, And aiken bowers Her king, and independence flee Strevlina's towers! Not sae the morn, that beaming shed A blaze round Wallace' helmed head, As bald in freedom's cause he led His patriot train, And dyed these blood-drench'd furrows red Wi' hostile slain! |