UNIVERSITY ALBUM.

THE

UNIVERSITY ALBUM.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL MELODY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CAMERONIAN'S DREAM.

LET Italy boast of her bloom shaded waters,

Her bowers, and her vines, and her warm sunny skies, Of her sons drinking love from the eyes of her daughters,

While freedom expires midst their softness and sighs.

Scotland's bleak mountains wild,
Where hoary cliffs are piled,
Towering in grandeur, are dearer to me;
Land of the misty cloud,
Land of the tempest loud,
Land of the brave and proud,

Land of the free!
Enthroned on the cliff of the dark highland mountain,

The spirit of Scotland reigns fearless and free,

While her tartan folds wave over blue lake and fountain,

Exulting she sings, looking over the sea.

“ Here on my mountains wild,

“ I have serenely smiled “ When armies and empires against me were hurled.

“ Throned on my native rocks,

“ Calmly sustained the shocks “ Of Cæsar, and Denmark, and Rome, and the world.

“ When kings of the nations in council assemble, “ The frown of my brow makes their proud hearts

to quake, “ The flash of mine eye makes the bravest to tremble,

“ The sound of my war song makes armies to shake.

“ France long shall mind the strain,

“ Sung on her bloody plain, “ While Europe's bold armies with terror did shiver.

“ Exulting midst fire and blood,
“ Then sung the pibroch loud,
“ Dying, but unsubdued,
- Scotland for ever!”

See at the war note, the proud horses prancing,

The thick groves of steel trodden down in their path, The eyes of the brave, like their bright swords are

glancing,
Triumphantly riding through ruin and death.