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FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING IN POSSESSION OF THE PUBLISHERS.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AG TILDEN FOUNDA

the purpose of using his money, or of getting money to use, (most probably the latter,) chanced, greatly to his wonderment, one sultry afternoon, as he rode along the way under shelter of the palm trees, which extended their boughs on either side, to hear a female voice singing plaintively this lay of his own distant land—

On the blythe Beltane, as I went
By myself attour the green bent,
Wharby the glancand waves of Clyde
Through haughs and hangand hazels glide,
There sadly sitting on a brae,

I heard a damsel speak her wae.

Oh Bothwell Bank, thou bloomest fair,
But ah thou mak'st my heart fu sair;
For a' beneath thy holts sae green
My love and I wad sit at e'en;
While primroses and daisies, mixt
With blue bells, in my locks he fixt.

But he left me ae dreary day,
And haply now sleeps in the clay;
Without ae sich his death to roun,
Without ae flouir his grave to crown!
Oh Bothwell Bank, thou bloomest fair,
But, ah, thou mak'st my heart fu sair.

It may well be conceived with what overwhelming emotions the traveller heard this beautiful ballad of his native country sung on a lonely spot, in a "far foreign land;" but presently, while the joy of grief was at smiles and tears upon his face, a goodly dwelling disclosed itself some little distance apart among the green fields, where by the door stood a fair lady with a child in her arms and our traveller became aware that it was she who had enchanted him with the sweet ditty of Bothwell Castle. A native of those banks celebrated in the song, she had in her youth gone to Palestine in company with some of the fair and noble of Scotland. But by one or more of those numerous accidents to which travellers were in those days, and still in some degree are, subject, she was separated from her companions, and would have found herself helpless in a foreign land, had it not been her good fortune to fall in with a rich Turkish gentleman, who, attracted by her beauty, and moved by her destitute situation, became first her benefactor, and eventually her husband. To meet with a countryman under present circumstances was to her no less grateful than had been her Doric ditty to the ears of the traveller. She welcomed him home, and in the end proved of much service to him, through the influence of her husband-"an advantage," says Robert Chambers, who records the anecdote, "which

the traveller could never have enjoyed had not Bothwell Bank bloomed fair to a poet's eye, and been the scene of some passion not less tender than unfortunate."

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TO THE DEPARTED.

THOU Comest only in the night, from the airy hall of dreams,
And we meet upon the breezy hill, and beside the shining streams ;
And Time returns, that long has pass'd, to join forgotten years,
And he brings the buried hopes of youth, its sunshine and its tears.
Thou smilest, as in days of yore; and I fancy that again
I can pour to thee, as I was wont, my bosom's joy or pain.
Oh! shadowy and delusive bliss! Yet cheat my spirit still,
That withers in its prison-house, where all is dark and chill.

Dark, though the light of sunny day upon my path be glowing-
Chill, though the breath of summer morn upon my cheek is blowing!
Because I wander forth alone, and find no kindred eye

To gaze with me on the flowery earth, or the glory of the sky!

Alone I climb the mountain height, or pierce the solemn wood,
I tread with solitary step the brink of the ocean flood;
In vain I seek thee on the hills, or beside the laughing streams,
For thou comest only in the night, from the fairy land of dreams.
Then I would wish, my all of life, one slumber for thy sake,
But that I know an hour will come when I at last must wake :-
When the baseless visions I have shaped will vanish like a shade,
And all their beauteous rainbow tints in the light of truth shall fade.
Oh! better far to brave the storm that gathers o'er my head,
With none to pity-none to soothe, till the grave becomes my bed,
Than to let the golden hope expire amid Fancy's fitful themes,
To meet thee on the eternal hills,-but never more in dreams!'

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