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Shy guest ! what calPst thou back to me ? A vision of young memory , Bora of that bappy time- when , free From care or coll , I watcb'd on Scottish braes the bee
At his sweet toil . In the grey hill-side ' s heathery nook , By a clear , rocky , Highland brook , That , languid with the sunshine , took Its loch-ward way , Hands in the stream , I he , and look On its wild play .
Hark I through lone glen and cairny hill , — No plover ' s whistle clear and shrill , No cloud-high lavrock's gushing trill O ' er moorland nest ,- * - * But thy monotony of bill Breaks the deep rest .
What magic in that simple sound ! The summer stream winds as it wound , Or , cross'd , o ' er-leaps its mossy bound With angrier flow- * - The Ossianic Mountains round , The Lake below !
And with these fix'd realities , The feelings of those moments rise , While , passive all , my spirit lies , Before them borne , Like ripe grass which the breeze o ' er-flies , Or shadowing corn *
How fine , how firm , the mystic chain , That binds the human heart and brain That can call up—and not in vain—^ From simplest things , Past pleasures filter ed from their pain , Joys without wings !
Thoughts by sweet Earth are sometimes given , We would not wish forgot in Heaven : And , when the mortal link is riven , In spheres above , Whate v er I lov'd below , all shriven , Still let me love !—* Crediton ,
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/27/