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MINSTRELSY. 261
When in the olden day,
Eve dim was sinking?
" O'er knight and baron's hall,
Turret, and tower,
O'er fell and forest tall,
Green brake and bower."
Star of the silver eve,
What hast thou noted,
While o'er the tower and tree
High hast thou floated ?
" Blue blades and bonnet gear,
Plaids lightly dancing,
Lairs of the dun deer,
And shafts dimly glancing."
Star of the maiden's dream,
Star of the gloaming,
Where now doth blink thy beam,
When owls are roaming ?
" Where in the baron's hall
Green moss is creeping,
Where o'er the forest's fall
Grey dew is weeping."
Star of the even still,
What now doth meet thee,
When from the lonely hill
Looks thy blink sweetly ?
" Hearths in the wind bleach'd bare,
Roofs in earth smoulder'd,
Sheep on the dun deer's lair,
Trees fell'd and moulder'd." *
. * In this elegant lyric, the transition from the high state of hope and
expectation experienced by the Jacobites during the early part oi
Charles's career in 1745, to that of the despair and desolation which