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 JAMES HOGG

We have seen! we have seen! but the time must come, And the angels will weep at the day of doom '

Aye keep the holy truths in mind, That kindred spirits their motions see, Who watch their ways with anxious e'e, And grieve for the guilt of humanitye! O, sweet to Heaven the maiden's prayer, And dear to Heaven the words of truth, And the praise of virtue frae beauty's mouth! And dear to the viewless forms of air, The minds that kyth as the body fair!
 * O would the fairest of mortal kind


 * O bonnie Kilmeny' free frae stain,

If ever you seek the world again,

That world of sin, of sorrow and fear,

O tell of the joys that are waiting here;

And tell of the signs you shall bhortly see;

Of the times that are now, and the times that shall be.'-

Thcy lifted Kilmeny, they led her away,

And she walk'd in the light of a sunless day;

The sky was a dome of crystal bright,

The fountain of vision, and fountain of light:

The emerald fields were of dazzling glow,

And the flowers of everlasting blow.

Then deep in the stream her body they laid,

That her youth and beauty never might fade;

And they smiled on heaven, when they saw her lie

In the stream of life that wander J d bye.

kyth] show, appear.

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