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The poetical works of Campbell and Falconer
The poetical works of Campbell and Falconer Author:Thomas Campbell 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: LOCHIEL'S WARNING. Wizard—Lochiel. Wizard. Lochikl, Lochiel! beware of the day When the lowlands shall meet thee in battle array! For a field of the dead ... more »rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scatter'd in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown: Woe, woe to the riders that trample them downl Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain. But hark! through the fast-flashing lightning of What steed to the desert flies frantic and far ? Tis thine, oh Glenullin! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watch-fire, all night at the gate, A steed comes at morning: no rider is there; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair. Weep, Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep, but thy tears cannot number the dead: For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave Lochiel Go, preach (o the coward, thou death-telling seer 1 Or, if gory Cullodea so dreadful appear, Draw, dotard, around thy old wavering sight This mantle, to cover the phantoms of fright. Wizard. Ha! laugh'st thou, Lochiel, my vision to scorn t Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be Say, rush'd the bold eagle exultingly forth, [torn! From his home, in the dark rolling clouds of the north ? Lo! the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high! Ah! home let him speed,—for the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit ? Why shoot to the blast Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. i Oh, crested Lochiel! the peerless in might, Whose b...« less