Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
f life is dead,
and hope has left may aged ken,
on forward wing for ever fled.
“awake thy st sad voice, my harp!
the voice of woe and wild despair!
awake, resound thy test y,
then sleep in silence evermair!
and thou, my st, best, only, friend,
that fillest an uomb,
accept this tribute from the bard
thht from fortune's mirkest gloom.
“in poverty's low barren vale,
thick mists obscure involv'd me round;
though oft i turn'd the wistful eye,
nae ray of fame was to be found:
thou found'st me, like the m sun
that melts the
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