1798.] 
uncivilized countries, for their benevolent 
and hofpitable attention to the forlorn 
ftranger. Mr. Park, who has been ina 
fmilar fituation with Ledyard, mentions 
the following anecdote in the fhort ac- 
count of his travels lately made public 
by Mr. Edwards : ) 
Mr. Park, one evening, in travelling 
along the banks of the Niger, was over- 
taken with a ftorm of thunder and rain, 
which drove him to a tree for fhelter. 
As night approached, a poor Negro wo- 
man, returning from the labours of the 
field, obferved that he was wet, weary, 
and dejected, and, taking up his faddle 
and bridle, told him to follow her, She 
led him to her cottage, where fhe regaled 
him with an excellent fupper of fifth, and 
ORIGINAL POETR 
ODE 
Addreffed t# Dx. Ropert ANDERSON, 
Of Herict’s-Green, Edinburgh, after a Vifit paid 
bim by the Author, and various Pedefirian Ex 
curfions in Scotland. 
By Mr. Drer. 
i 
WHERE is the kina of soncs*? He 
fleeps in death : 
No more around him prefs the warrior- 
throng ; ; 
He rolls no more the death-denouncing 
fong ; 
Galm’d is the ftorm of war, and hufh’d the 
poet’s breath. 
Yes! Anderfon,he fleeps: but Carrun’s ftream} 
Stili feems refponfive to his awful lyre ; 
And oft where Clutha’s winding waters 
gleamf, 
Shall pilgrim-poets burn with kindred 
fire. 
Sunk are Balclutha’s walls, and thatter’d low 
The fort high-beetling, gem of Roman 
pride ; 
Sleeps too Fingal||, and fleeps th’ Imperial 
foe§, 
Each in a. narrow dwelling doorh’d to bide. 
Quench’d is the poet’s eye—but shines his 
name, ~~ - 
As thro’ a broken cloud the fun’s far-darting 
flame. 
* A name applied to Ossrawn the fon of 
FinGAL, in the. poems afcribed to him, as 
Weanflated by Macpherfon: concerning the 
authenticity of thefe poems it is unneceflary 
to fay any thing here.—Offian lived in the 
third century. 
+ Caron, or Carruny, a fmalk river in 
Sterlingfhire, in the neighbourhood of Agri- 
cola’s Wall. The fcene of the dramatic 
poem entitled, ‘* Tbe War of Cares,” lies vn 
the banksof this river. SeeUsstan’s Pores, 
{ The river Clyde. 
The father of Offian. 
‘ The Emperor of Rome, Caracalla. 
MontHiy Mage. No. XXxviil, 
Original Poetry. 
365 
corn for his horfe, after which fhe fpread 
a mat on the floor for his night’s repofe. 
Haying done thefe kind offices, fhe called, 
in the female part of the family, wha 
{pun cotton for the greater part of the 
night, and relieved their labour by fongs. 
One of them which was fung in a fweet 
plaintive air, muft have been compofed 
extempore, as the literal tranflation of 
the words is as follows : 
‘¢ The winds roared and the rain felf. 
The poor white man, faint, and weary, came 
and fat under our tree. He has no mother 
to bring him miik, no wife to grind his 
corn.”” Chorus. * Let us pity the white 
man, he has no mother to bring him milk, 
no wife to grind his corn.” 
Ve 
ive 
Where now Dunsar*? The bard has run 
his race : 
But glitters fill the Gorpen TerGezon 
high ; tli 
Nor fhall the thunder ftorm that {weeps 
E the fky, 
*Mid its wide wafte, the glorious orb'deface, 
DunkeEeLpt, no more the heaven-direhed, 
chaunt 
Within thy fainted wall may found again. 
But thou, as once a poet’s favourite haunt—= 
Shalt live in DouGuas? pure Virgilian 
i eadoraim: 
While time devours the caftle’s towering wall, 
And rooflefs abbiest pine, low tottering to 
their fall. 
iit. 
Oh! Tweed, fay, does thy rolling fream be= 
tide 
The patriot’s ardour, or the bigot’s rage ? 
In union dof thou diftant friends engage? 
Ox flow, a boundary|| river, to divide ? 
PSDRTVNIEN aPLSDN Gre aA LPS A SS ANAT ae a en FO 
* ‘The principal of the ancient Scottify 
poets. He chiefly excels in defcriptive pos 
etry: of which fpecies of compofition ig 
*¢ The Golden Terge.” Dunbar died in the mid- 
dle of the 16th century; his poems were 
fome time fince republifbed in Scotland. 
7 Dunkeld in Perththire, was formerly am 
epitcopal fee; and Gawin Douglas, brother to 
the Earl of Angus, an excellent poet, was 
fome time bithop of it. Douglas tranflared. 
Virgil; the prologues to which difplay won 
derful powers of defcription. Other poems 
alfo were Written by this writer, the mot 
diftinguifhied 6f which is an allegorical Potitiy 
intitled, <“ King Hart.” Douglas died iw 
1522. See 6 Pinterton’s Ancient Sratti~h Po. 
ems, in two vol. 8vo. Pe: < 
} The ruins of a fine abbey are at Dunk 
Keld. 
| The river Tweed divides England and 
Scotland. 
if 
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