Bernard Barton Poems

FOR Scotland's and for freedom's right
The Bruce his part had played,
In five successive fields of fight
Been conqured and dismayed;
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BEAUTIFUL, sublime, and glorious;
Mild, majestic, foaming, free, -
Over time itself victorious,
Image of eternity!
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I walk'd the fields at morning's prime,
The grass was ripe for mowing;
The skylark sang his matin chime,
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LAMP of our feet whereby we trace
Our path when wont to stray;
Stream from the fount of heav'nly grace,
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Pour your tears wild and free - balm best and holiest!
Fallen is the lofty tree, low as the lowliest;
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