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EXTRACTS FROM a Tribute by Professor Mac- 



GlLLIVRAY TO THE MeMORY OF Dr. BaRCLAY, 



DATED 7th April 1820. 



XI 



My thoughts were gloomy, and I felt the wo 

 Of human kind press with a leaden weight 



Upon my breast ; yet I could not forgo 

 For aught of intellect that wilder'd state, 

 For it had left my heart reckless of fate ; 



And when the light of love flash'd on my soul, 

 Oh ! then I felt of Rapture's power the height. 



Equal to former gloom, and she was sole 

 Directress of my feelings, wild without control. 



XII 



Enough of this — enough is said to show — 

 Not that I am, forsooth, a wondrous wight 



Who trod a path apart from all below. 



And in the storm and lightning had delight. 



The whirlwind's rage, and deepest gloom of night ; 



