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CONJUGAL AFFECTION.

Yes, thou art changed since first we met,
But think not I shall e'er regret,
Though never can my heart forget

The charms that once were thine:

For, Marian, well the cause I know
That stole the lustre from thine eye,
That proved thy beauty's secret foe,

And bade thy bloom and spirits fly :—
What laid thy health, my Marian, low,
Was,-anxious care of mine.

O'er my sick couch I saw thee bend,
The duteous wife, the tender friend,
And each capricious wish attend

With soft incessant care.

Then, trust me, love! that pallid face

Can boast a sweeter charm for me,

A truer, tenderer, dearer grace

Than blooming health bestowed on thee;

For these thy well-timed love I see,

And read my blessings there.

Opie

STANZAS,

Occasioned by visiting the City and Ruins of St Andrew's.

In ancient time, near the wide ocean-strand,
A city lay, in sculptured rich attire,

Far shadowed out upon the golden sand ;-
Her rock-built castle, and cathedral spire-
Her holy monastery, where grey-haired friar
And saintly nun, to penitence and prayer
Would in the fervour of their faith retire-
Her cloistered courts, for learning to repair,

Might shew how kingly strength and wisdom flourished

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No consecrated groves, or rivers bright,

No lovely vallies circled it around;

But cliffs on which the eagle would alight,
And hollow caverns stretching under ground,
Within whose labyrinths of gloom profound
The water-snakes, and sea-birds dragged their

Or lonely hermits secret refuge found;

Whilst far along the rocky cape there lay,

With vessels anchored deep, a wild and troubled bay.

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Her stately gates beneath their arches sweep
With silver keys, in twilight's failing hour
Were peaceful closed: upon its rocky steep,
Majestically firm, her castle tower

Bore Scotland's banner, and the badge of power
Her country's cross, Saint Andrew's, there installed;
To such rank pageants then would nations cower,
Nor dream that like Jerusalem enthralled,

Their citied strength would be-so suddenly unwalled.

Then on those battlements the sun arose,
Darting its rays as from a fiery shield,
Whose blaze appalled the fiercest of their foes;
For won by blood in many a battle field,

Monarchs would there the sword and sceptre wield,

Whilst holier men, for Jesus' sake divine,

Their wretched lives in sacrifice would yield

And clad in armour, leave their Saviour's shrine,

To tread the holy dust, and fall in Palestine.

Through the cathedral's aisle, and vaulted dome,
Then solemn orisons and anthems rung;
Above the altar, waving rich perfume
Over its golden tablet, censers swung,
And the tall tapers burning dimly flung,
A mystic light from out the sanctuary,

STANZAS,

Occasioned by visiting the City and Ruins of St Andrew's.

In ancient time, near the wide ocean-strand,
A city lay, in sculptured rich attire,

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Far shadowed out upon the golden sand ;-
Her rock-built castle, and cathedral spire-
Her holy monastery, where grey-haired friar
And saintly nun, to penitence and prayer
Would in the fervour of their faith retire-

Her cloistered courts, for learning to repair,

Might shew how kingly strength and wisdom flourished

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