O a ragland beauty as you

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 ruined arches towers and views
 not ruined views but fine ones
 your gothic arches and your falling towers.
 with keystones moats and drawbridges 2

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 your mice‐house moss and burnt up grass 3
 for mice to pull and line their falling dwellings
 your spiral towers 4 and holes for mice to live in
 your dungeons splits 5 and drawbridges
 battlements courts and lodges

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 so ragland as I have described you
 I must take leave of you

 Lochleven is your castle there 6
when tis so long when cried aloud
was boat is near when queen of scots

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stepped in the boat and rowed from

sh ar

shore 7
when waves were gliding
oars were sliding

oer the wide expanse of you
now fish and waves are gliding

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and fishing boats are sliding
but before twas all as quiet
as the day
when we may say
not a leaf is stirring now

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 thy waving boughs thyfalling leaves
and the swallow on the eaves
twittering and the tempests blow
with the rippling waters flow

What beauties 8 spring thou hast

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the waving lilac
and the stiff tall peach with roselikeflowers
with yellow corchorus 9 and with nectronblossom 10
some with grace wave and somethough tall are stiff

waving is lilac so is yellow corchorus
waving is cherry blossom though not

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so graceful
as the spiry lilac and the hyacinth
stiff is the pear and nectron withthe peach
and apricot all these are stiff butin return
Their flowers are beautiful Soare birds and beasts
As well as flowers Some are

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wild and cruel
Such is 11 the tiger panther lynxand ounce
So also in return these animals
Are pretty in the other sort the best 12
Some dogʼs 13 are ugly but conceal within
Some godd 14 intentions good ideas good

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thoughts
But spring there is one

tree

that thoubringʼst forth

That is more beautiful than allthe others
This is the apple blossom. 15 O howsweet
Is that fine tree and so I end

 That rock with waving

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willows on its side
 that hill with beauteousforests on its top
 That stream that with its ripplingwaves doth glide
 and oh what beauties has thatmountain got 16
 That rock stands high
against, 17 the sky

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 those trees stand firm uponthe rock
 and seem as if they alldid lock

into each other. 18 tall they stand
towering above the whitened land

First winding round the base of

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that smooth rock
Flows the glass tay not alwaysquite so smooth
as that clear substance. from thesurface rises
a steep rock and towering oerits head
appear the high topped treesabove below
green natures colour stands

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upon the rock
and high above thy headappears the green of trees
walk on the top of that rock andlook down
from thence upon the tay theprecipice

tween thee and it doth make theegiddy
it is so high that from

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it seen the tay
appears like a little rivulet amongthe hills
dwindling into nothing mongthe distant mountains

 GLen of glenfarg thy beaut

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 Streaming through thy mountainshigh
 onward pressing onward still

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 hardly seeing the blue sky

 Mountain streams press onyour way
 and run into the streambelow
 never stop like idle clay
 hear the sheep and cattle low

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Stones that in the streamdo lie
bear the rushing torrent still
thou shalt never never die
submit unto the almightys will

Cows that lie upon the grass

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rise and graze upon the hills
never be a heavy mass
like a stone thats in the rills

Sheep that eat upon the hills
rise and play and jump about

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drink out of the running rills
and always on the grass be out

Cottages upon the plain
placed so near the floury mills
cottager look on charlesʼs wain 19

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right above the grassy hills

The pole star guides theeon thy way
when in dark nights thou art
therefore look up at the starryday
look at the stars about thee

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tost

Flow on thou calm sea bear the ships to theirports
man of war 21 smack 22 or sloop 23 all the differentsorts
do not throw them on rocks do not send them onhigh
or make them upon the high precipice lie
no profit to thee doth this havoc produce

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while to men this great treasureʼs ofinfinite use
for money is generally aboard thesefine ships
that go over the ocean into whichtheir flag dips b

See the collecting clouds upon the hill
See the collecting roughness of the rill

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Hark to the wind it howls among the
 trees
And the high rising wind the pigs

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do see
See from the skies the shower of
 pelting snow
And hear how much the sheep and cattle
 low
From the dark cloud a flash of lightning
 plays

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And down upon the ground a woman
 lies
Struck by the lightnings flash the
 thunder follows fast
With fury from the skies the light
 bad nings cast c

See how from yonder hills the cloudscollect
And see how dark and dreary they do

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look
Promising hail and snow the birdsretire
Into their nests and chirp and scream
Prophesying the coming storm downpours the snow
Covering the hedges and thehouses tops

Loud howls the wind and

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whistling roots up many a tree
The sheep bleat loudly and thecareful dog
Collecting them in a flock conductsthem home
Then when the storm is overfrom the clouds
Peeps forth the sun and shiningon the snow
Gives it that dazzling whiteness

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to the eye
In which its principle beautydoth consist
And so in beginning anotherline I end