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The Cotters Saturday Nigh (第4/5页)
m; perhaps dundee's wild-warbling measures rise; or plaintive martyrs, worthy of the name; or noble elgihe heaven-ward flame; the sweetest far of scotia's holy lays: par'd with these, italian trills are tame; the tickl'd ears -felt raptures raise; nae unisohey with our creator's praise. the priest-like father reads the sacred page, how abram was the friend of god on high; or moses bade eternal warfare wage with amalek's ungracious progeny; or how the royal bard did groaning lie beh the stroke of heaven's avenging ire; or job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; or rapt isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; or other holy seers that tuhe sacred lyre. perhaps the christian volume is the theme, how guiltless blood fuilty man was shed; how he, who bore in heaven the sed name, had not oh whereon to lay his head: how his first followers and servants sped; the precepts sage they wrote to many a land: how he, who lone in patmos banished, saw in the sun a mighty aand, and heard great bab'lon's doom pronounc'd by heaven's and. then, kneeling down to heaveernal king, the saint, the father, and the husband prays: hope “spriing on triumphant wing,” that thus they all shall meet in future days, there, ever bask in ued rays, no more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, together hymning their creator's praise, in such society, yet still more dear; while cirg time moves round in aernal sphere par'd with this, how pion's pride, in all the pomp of method, and of art; when men display to gregations wide devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! the power, ins'd, the pageant will desert, the pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole; but haply, in some
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