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EOSLIN CASTLE.
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Awake, sweet muse ! the breathing spring
With rapture warms ; awake, and sing !
Awake, and join the vocal throng
Who hail the morning with a song;
To Nanny raise the cheerful lay,
bid her haste and come away ;
In sweetest smiles herself adorn,
And add new graces to the morn.
hark, my love, on every spray
Each feather'd warbler tunes Ms lay ;
'Tis beauty fires the ravish'd throng :
And love inspires the melting song.
Then let my raptur'd notes arise,
For beauty darts from Nanny's eyes,
And love my rising bosom warms,
And fills my soul with sweet alarms.
come, my love ! thy Colin's lay
With rapture calls, come away !
Come, while the muse this wreath shall twine
Around that modest brow of tliine ;
hither haste, and with thee bring
That beauty blooming like the spring,
Those graces that divinely shine,
And charm this ravish'd breast of mine.
" Eoslin Castle." The composer of this melody is not known. It has been wrongly ascribed to James
Oswald, who never laid any claim to it. In his Collection, it is not marked as one of his own tunes ; and, indeed,
it was published in a prior Collection, M'Gibbon's, under the name of the " House of Glams." Oswald practised
several unpardonable deceptions upon the public, by passing off tunes of his own as compositions of David Eizzio.
His tricks of that kind are pointedly alluded to in a poetical epistle to him, printed in the Scots Magazine for
October 1741. The verses here given, which Biirns called "beautiful," were written by Eichard Hewitt, a
native of Cumberland, who died in 1764. When a boy, he was engaged to lead blind Dr. Blacklock ; who, pleased
with his intelligence, educated him, and employed him as his amanuensis. See Museum Illustrations, vol. i.,
pp. 5 and 108, and vol. iv., pp. 406-7.
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