Poems With Memoirs of His Life Author:David Gray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LUGGIE. I/HAT impulse which all beauty gives the Is languaged as I sing. For fairer stream Eolled never golden sand unto the sea, Made sweeter music th... more »an the Luggie, gloomed By glens whose melody mingles with her own. The uttered name my inmost being thrills, A word beyond a charm ; and if this lay Could smoothly flow along and wind to the end In natural manner, as the Luggie winds Her tortuous waters, then the world would list In sweet enthralment, swallowed up and lost, As he who hears the music that beguiles. For as the pilgrim on warm summer days Pacing the dusty highway, when he sees The limpid silver glide with liquid lapse Between the emerald banks — with inward throe Blesses the clear enticement and partakes: (His hot face meeting its own counterpart Shadowy, from an unvoyageable sky); So would the people in these later days Listen the singing of a country song, A virelay of harmless homeliness ; These later days, when in most bookish rhymes Dear blessed Nature is forgot, and lost Her simple unelaborate modesty. And unto thee, my friend ! thou prime of soul 'Mong men ; I gladly bring my first-born song ! Would it were worthier for thy noble sake, True poet and true English gentleman ! Thy favors flattered me, thy praise inspired : Thy utter kindness took my heart, and now Thy love alleviates my slow decline. Beneath an ash in beauty tender leaved, And through whose boughs the glimmering sunshine flowed In rare ethereal jasper, making cool A checkered shadow in the dark-green grass, I lay enchanted. At my head there bloomed A hedge of sweet-brier, fragrant as the breath Of maid beloved when her cheek is laid To yours in downy pressure, soft as sleep. A bank of harebells, flowers unspeakable For half-transparent azure, nodding, gleamed As a ...« less