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ARMED
Give me to-night to hide me in the shade.
That neither moon nor star
May see the secret place where I am laid,
Nor watch me from afar.
Let not the dark its prying ghosts employ
To peer on my retreat.
And see the fragments of my broken toy
Lie scattered at my feet.
I fashioned it, that idol of my own.
Of metal strange and bright;
I made my toy a god—I raised a throne
To honour my delight.
This haunted byway of the grove was lit
With lamps my hand had trimmed.
Before the altar in the midst of it
I kept their flame undimmed.
My steps turned ever to the hidden shrine ;
Aware or unaware,
My soul dwelt only in that spot divine.
And now a wreck lies there.
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Give me to-night to hide me in the shade.
That neither moon nor star
May see the secret place where I am laid,
Nor watch me from afar.
Let not the dark its prying ghosts employ
To peer on my retreat.
And see the fragments of my broken toy
Lie scattered at my feet.
I fashioned it, that idol of my own.
Of metal strange and bright;
I made my toy a god—I raised a throne
To honour my delight.
This haunted byway of the grove was lit
With lamps my hand had trimmed.
Before the altar in the midst of it
I kept their flame undimmed.
My steps turned ever to the hidden shrine ;
Aware or unaware,
My soul dwelt only in that spot divine.
And now a wreck lies there.
53
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > More songs of Angus and others > (53) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129161302 |
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| Shelfmark | T.22.e |
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| Description | Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print. Jacob had a deep appreciation of the Angus dialect and countryside, and this is evident in her celebrated Scots language poetry in volumes such as 'Song of Angus' (1915). |
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| Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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