638 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816*. 



And tliere were sudden partings, such as press 



The life from out ycung lieurts, and choking bighs 



Which ne'er might be lepeated ; who could guess 



If ever xnore shoultl meet those mutual eyes, 



Since upon nights so sweet sucli awful moin could rise ? 



And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed. 

 The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, 

 Vv'cnt pouring forwaid with impetuous speed. 

 And swiftly forniing in the ranks of war ; 

 And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; 

 And near the beat of the alarming drum 

 Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; 

 While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, 

 Or whispering with white lips — " The foe I they come ! 

 they come !" 



And wild and high the " Cameron's gathering rose !" 



The wai-note of Lochiel, w hich Albyn's hills 



Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — • 



How in the noon of night that pibroch thrUls, 



Savage and shrill ! but with the breath which tills 



Their mountain-pipe, so fdl the mountaineers 



V\'ith the fierce native daring which instils 



The stirring memory of a thousand years, 



And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clans-man's ear ! 



And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves. 



Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass. 



Grieving, if aught in.animate e'er grieves. 



Over the unrcturning brave, — alas ! 



Ere evening to be trodden like tfie grass 



Vv'hich now beneath them, but above shall grow 



In its next verdure, when this fiery mass 



Of living valour, rolling on the foe 



And burning \\ith high hope, shall moulder cold and low. 



Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, 



Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, 



The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife. 



The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day 



Battle's magnificently -stern array ! 



The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent 



The earth is covered thick with other clay. 



Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent. 



Rider and horse, — fiiend, foe, — in one red burial blent ! 



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