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SAVOURNA DEELISH (Continued.)
Long I fought for my country, far, far from my
true love,
Savourna, &c.
All my pay and my booty I hoarded for you, love,
S avourna, &c.
Peace was proclaimed, escaped from tlie slauijhter,
I landed at home, my sweet girl I sought her ;
But sorrow, alas ! to her cold grave had brought
her.
Savourna, &c.
Hampton.
CALEDONIA.
Same Aie.
Caledonia, my country, thy rivers and fountains.
And green fertile valleys, exulting, I sing ;
How pleasant's thy sweet-blooming moorlands
and mountains.
When dressed in the gaudy profusion of spring ;
Where, fanned by the soft summer sea-breeze thy
shore is„
While flocks bleat around us, and v/oods pour
their chorus.
And mild morning-beams gild the landscape
before us.
All spangl'd withdew-drops,how charming the scene!
Healthy thy clime is, of mild temperature.
Remote from the rays of the polar extreme ;
And distant from regions, where languishing nature
Melts in the blaze of the sun's torrid beam ;
Happy land ! where no raging volcanoes are pouring.
Where noserpents hiss, nofellmonstei-s devouring.
No clouds stor'd with death in thy horizon lowering.
No pestilence floats on thy soft breezes' wing.
While daring,yet prudent, thy sons fill their stations,
Scarcely equalled in arts, and unrivalled in arms ;
For learning thy fame resounds through all the
nations,
And peerless thy daughters in virtues and charms '.
From times unrecorded, thy freedom descended.
Through ages of heroes whose valour defended
Thy charters, while foes all their vengeance ex-
pended
Against thy wild mountains and borders in vain I
Be plenty, my country, and peace thy possession,
And Freedom'sbright sunbeams illume thy fairday;
And far from thy shores be all want and oppression.
While virtue's bold streams sweep corruption
away !
May friendship unite, and may love and aflFection,
And virtue, thy children exalt to perfection.
To guard thy loved shores, be their strength and
protection,
While time rolls, throvj'a ages unnumbered, away.