The HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND. 75 



XIII. 



ALL hail, ye fcenes that o'er my foul prevail, 



Ye " fpacious *" friths and lakes which, far away, 

 Are by fmooth ANNAN fill'd, or pafVral TAY, 



Or DON'S romantic fprings, at diflance, hail ! 

 The time fhall come when I, perhaps, may tread 



Your lowly glens, o'erhung with fpreading broom, 

 Or o'er your ftretching heaths by fancy led : 



Then will I drefs once more the faded bow'r, 

 Where JOHNSON fat in DRUMMOND'S f " focial J" fhade, 



Or crop from Tiviot's dale each " claffic flower," 

 And mourn on Yarrow's banks " the widow'd maid||." 

 Meantime, ye Pow'rs, that on the plains which bore 



The cordial youth, on LOTHIAN'S plains attend, 

 Where'er he dwell, on hill, or lowly muir, 



To him I lofe, your kind protection lend, 

 And, touch'd with love like mine, preferve my abfent friend. 



* A blank in the manufcript. The word fpacious fupplied by Dr CARLYLE. 



\ BEN JOHNSON undertook a journey to Scotland a-foot in 1619, to vifit the poet 

 DRUMMOND, a{ his feat of Hawthornden, near Edinburgh. DRUMMOND has preferved in 

 his works, fome very curious heads of their converfation. 



$ A blank in the manufcript. Social fupplied by Dr CARLYLE. 



|j Both thefe lines left imperfect ; fupplied by Dr CARLYLE. This laftftanza bears more 

 marks of haftinefs of compofition than any of the reft. Befides the blanks which are 

 .fupplied by Dr CARLYLE, there is apparently an entire line wanting after the feventh 

 line of the fianza. The deficient line ought to have rhymed with broom. 



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