Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1801 to 1840 > Poems in English, Scotch, and Gaelic, on various subjects

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Each note harmonious swells upon mine ear.
My bosom heaves—I breathe enchanted air.
Go on, dear youthful Bard, and loud proclaim
The sweats of Friendship, and fair virtue's fame.
Report their honours to each hill and dale^
And spread their ensigns in the flutt'ring gale.
Let ev'ry Muse attend in raptur'd throng,
And lend their aid to animate the song;
Let Ossian's long departed ghost preside,
T'adjust the cadence, and each note divide
To teach the flowing strains their rise and fall,
And how he sung in Selnia's echoing hall;
Let murm'ring brooks convey the swelling sound,
And stubborn rocks the echo back rebound;
Let lofty pines, while waving in the breeze,
Repeat the darling theme to humble trees;
Let bursting torrents in full force appear,
And rough cascades attract the listening earj
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