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® Alexander Selkirk, known by the name of Robinson Crusoe. 
oetry. 
Their sable-heads in silent sadnefs fhake, 
And cast their gloomy fhade in Leven’s lake. 
Ah, fairest of the Caledonian fair, 
Ill fated Mary! thou wast all their care; 
For thee,'O queen, these everlasting ailis 
Rejoiced once ;—now grief their bosom fills : 
Their hoary locks in clouds of sorrow fall, 
And pour their tears around thy cast!= wall. 
But see the sun darts forth celestial rays, 
The lake now fhines, the castle seems to blaze; 
The gloom of woe dispells,—and lo! their weeds 
The Lomonds poses after fhade succeeds 5 
The varied landscape dazzles all my sight, 
And Largo house seems in a blaze of lights 
Hail Largo house! renown’d for great and good, 
‘The seat of Durham, once of Andrew Wood 5 
Durham, improver of thine own estate, 
Rich are thy fields, and elegant thy seat; 
Brave Weod, to grateful Scotia ever dear, 
Her fleets thou didst to dreadful battle steer 5 
And when loud war to silent peace gave ways 
Thy thips thou safely moor’d in Largo Bay. 
Or peace or war, to thy profefs'on true, 
The hills were rocks, the plains were seas to yous 
The deep canal, flow’d round thy strong abode, 
And barge convey’d thee to the house of God} 
Now thy canal o’ergrown with rufh and flag, 
Thy tow’r the haunt of fairy, witch, or hag 5 
No barge is there, but frogs expanding swim, 
Here bats cling silent, and the night owls scream 5 
But thy just fame fhall never know decay, 
Fix’d as yon mount, and pure as yonder bays 
O, Largo bay! how many are thy charms? 
Smooth are thy waves, and safe thy fhelt’ring arms 3 
"No winds can trouble thee except the west, 
‘To-weary mariners a place of rest; 
This Selkirk * found, when from Fernandez isle 
Return’d to Largo, and his native soil. 
A man of wond’rous life.—Four years and more 
He trode alone the solitary fhore, 
Far from the haunts of men;—nor friend had he 
Except his cats, his kids, and a fuzee. 
His purring guards around their sov’reign Creeps 
Lest hostile rats fhould eer disturb his sleep 5 
His kids were partners when he rang‘d the dance, 
Their nat’ral fkip exceeds the art of France; 
Or when to heav’n he pray’d or offer’d praise, 
They join in concert, or im silence gaze. 
Lo from the bay, methinks I see his ghost 
Rise like a vapour on his native coast, 
Swift from the beach he runs along the grafs, 
A cloud supplies him with a goat fkin drefs 5 
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