[ { "title": "Border Ballad", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale,", "Why the deil dinna ye march forward in order!", "March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale,", "All the Blue Bonnets are bound for the Border.", "Many a banner spread,", "Flutters above your head,", "Many a crest that is famous in story.", "Mount and make ready then,", "Sons of the mountain glen,", "Fight for the Queen and our old Scottish glory.", "", "Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing,", "Come from the glen of the buck and the roe;", "Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing,", "Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow.", "Trumpets are sounding,", "War-steeds are bounding,", "Stand to your arms, then, and march in good order;", "England shall many a day", "Tell of the bloody fray,", "When the Blue Bonnets came over the Border." ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "Patriotism 1. Innominatus", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "BREATHES there the man with soul so dead,", "Who never to himself hath said,", " 'This is my own, my native land!'", "Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd", "As home his footsteps he hath turn'd", " From wandering on a foreign strand?", "If such there breathe, go, mark him well;", "For him no Minstrel raptures swell;", "High though his titles, proud his name,", "Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;", "Despite those titles, power, and pelf,", "The wretch, concentred all in self,", "Living, shall forfeit fair renown,", "And, doubly dying, shall go down", "To the vile dust from whence he sprung,", "Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Patriotism 01 Innominatus", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "BREATHES there the man with soul so dead,", "Who never to himself hath said,", "'This is my own, my native land!'", "Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd", "As home his footsteps he hath turn'd", "From wandering on a foreign strand?", "If such there breathe, go, mark him well;", "For him no Minstrel raptures swell;", "High though his titles, proud his name,", "Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;", "Despite those titles, power, and pelf,", "The wretch, concentred all in self,", "Living, shall forfeit fair renown,", "And, doubly dying, shall go down", "To the vile dust from whence he sprung,", "Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "The Truth of Woman", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "Woman's faith, and woman's trust -", "Write the characters in the dust;", "Stamp them on the running stream,", "Print them on the moon's pale beam,", "And each evanescent letter", "Shall be clearer, firmer, better,", "And more permanent, I ween,", "Than the thing those letters mean.", "", "I have strain'd the spider's thread", "'Gainst the promise of a maid;", "I have weigh'd a grain of sand", "'Gainst her plight of heart and hand;", "I told my true love of the token,", "How her faith proved light, and her word was broken:", "Again her word and truth she plight,", "And I believed them again ere night." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Harp of the North, Farewell!", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark,", "On purple peaks a deeper shade descending;", "In twilight copse the glow-worm lights her spark,", "The deer, half-seen, are to the covert wending.", "Resume thy wizard elm! the fountain lending,", "And the wild breeze, thy wilder minstrelsy;", "Thy numbers sweet with nature’s vespers blending,", "With distant echo from the fold and lea,", "And herd-boy’s evening pipe, and hum of housing bee.", "", "Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp!", "Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway,", "And little reck I of the censure sharp", "May idly cavil at an idle lay.", "Much have I owed thy strains on life’s long way,", "Through secret woes the world has never known,", "When on the weary night dawned wearier day,", "And bitterer was the grief devoured alone.—", "That I o’erlive such woes, Enchantress! is thine own.", "", "Hark! as my lingering footsteps slow retire,", "Some spirit of the Air has waked thy string!", "’Tis now a seraph bold, with touch of fire,", "’Tis now the brush of Fairy’s frolic wing.", "Receding now, the dying numbers ring", "Fainter and fainter down the rugged dell;", "And now the mountain breezes scarcely bring", "A wandering witch-note of the distant spell—", "And now, ’tis silent all!—Enchantress, fare thee well!" ], "linecount": "27" }, { "title": "Patriotism 02 Nelson, Pitt, Fox", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "TO mute and to material things", "New life revolving summer brings;", "The genial call dead Nature hears,", "And in her glory reappears.", "But oh, my Country's wintry state", "What second spring shall renovate?", "What powerful call shall bid arise", "The buried warlike and the wise;", "", "The mind that thought for Britain's weal,", "The hand that grasp'd the victor steel?", "The vernal sun new life bestows", "Even on the meanest flower that blows;", "But vainly, vainly may he shine", "Where glory weeps o'er NELSON'S shrine;", "And vainly pierce the solemn gloom", "That shrouds, O PITT, thy hallow'd tomb!", "", "Deep graved in every British heart,", "O never let those names depart!", "Say to your sons,--Lo, here his grave,", "Who victor died on Gadite wave!", "To him, as to the burning levin,", "Short, bright, resistless course was given.", "Where'er his country's foes were found", "Was heard the fated thunder's sound,", "Till burst the bolt on yonder shore,", "Roll'd, blazed, destroy'd--and was no more.", "", "Nor mourn ye less his perish'd worth,", "Who bade the conqueror go forth,", "And launch'd that thunderbolt of war", "On Egypt, Hafnia, Trafalgar;", "Who, born to guide such high emprise,", "For Britain's weal was early wise;", "Alas! to whom the Almighty gave,", "For Britain's sins, an early grave!", "--His worth, who in his mightiest hour", "A bauble held the pride of power,", "Spurn'd at the sordid lust of pelf,", "And served his Albion for herself;", "Who, when the frantic crowd amain", "Strain'd at subjection's bursting rein,", "O'er their wild mood full conquest gain'd,", "The pride he would not crush, restrain'd,", "Show'd their fierce zeal a worthier cause,", "And brought the freeman's arm to aid the freeman's laws.", "", "Hadst thou but lived, though stripp'd of power,", "A watchman on the lonely tower,", "Thy thrilling trump had roused the land,", "When fraud or danger were at hand;", "By thee, as by the beacon-light,", "Our pilots had kept course aright;", "As some proud column, though alone,", "Thy strength had propp'd the tottering throne.", "Now is the stately column broke,", "The beacon-light is quench'd in smoke,", "The trumpet's silver voice is still,", "The warder silent on the hill!", "", "O think, how to his latest day,", "When Death, just hovering, claim'd his prey,", "With Palinure's unalter'd mood", "Firm at his dangerous post he stood;", "Each call for needful rest repell'd,", "With dying hand the rudder held,", "Till in his fall with fateful sway", "The steerage of the realm gave way.", "Then--while on Britain's thousand plains", "One polluted church remains,", "Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent around", "The bloody tocsin's maddening sound,", "But still upon the hallow'd day", "Convoke the swains to praise and pray;", "While faith and civil peace are dear,", "Grace this cold marble with a tear:--", "He who preserved them, PITT, lies here!", "", "Nor yet suppress the generous sigh,", "Because his rival slumbers nigh;", "Nor be thy Requiescat dumb", "Lest it be said o'er Fox's tomb.", "For talents mourn, untimely lost,", "When best employ'd, and wanted most;", "Mourn genius high, and lore profound,", "And wit that loved to play, not wound;", "And all the reasoning powers divine", "To penetrate, resolve, combine;", "And feelings keen, and fancy's glow--", "They sleep with him who sleeps below:", "And, if thou mourn'st they could not save", "From error him who owns this grave,", "Be every harsher thought suppress'd,", "And sacred be the last long rest.", "Here, where the end of earthly things", "Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings;", "Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue,", "Of those who fought, and spoke, and sung;", "Here, where the fretted vaults prolong", "The distant notes of holy song,", "As if some angel spoke agen,", "'All peace on earth, good-will to men';", "If ever from an English heart,", "O, here let prejudice depart,", "And, partial feeling cast aside,", "Record that Fox a Briton died!", "When Europe crouch'd to France's yoke,", "And Austria bent, and Prussia broke,", "And the firm Russian's purpose brave", "Was barter'd by a timorous slave--", "Even then dishonour's peace he spurn'd,", "The sullied olive-branch return'd,", "Stood for his country's glory fast,", "And nail'd her colours to the mast!", "Heaven, to reward his firmness, gave", "A portion in this honour'd grave;", "And ne'er held marble in its trust", "Of two such wondrous men the dust.", "", "With more than mortal powers endow'd,", "How high they soar'd above the crowd!", "Theirs was no common party race,", "Jostling by dark intrigue for place;", "Like fabled gods, their mighty war", "Shook realms and nations in its jar;", "Beneath each banner proud to stand,", "Look'd up the noblest of the land,", "Till through the British world were known", "The names of PITT and Fox alone.", "Spells of such force no wizard grave", "E'er framed in dark Thessalian cave,", "Though his could drain the ocean dry,", "And force the planets from the sky.", "These spells are spent, and, spent with these,", "The wine of life is on the lees.", "Genius, and taste, and talent gone,", "For ever tomb'd beneath the stone,", "Where--taming thought to human pride!--", "The mighty chiefs sleep side by side.", "Drop upon Fox's grave the tear,", "'Twill trickle to his rival's bier;", "O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound,", "And Fox's shall the notes rebound.", "The solemn echo seems to cry,", "'Here let their discord with them die.", "Speak not for those a separate doom", "Whom fate made Brothers in the tomb;", "But search the land of living men,", "Where wilt thou find their like agen?'" ], "linecount": "143" } ]