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268 Even by this studied depth of privacy,

The unhappy Alien hoping to obtain

Concealment, or seduced by wish to find,

In place from outward molestation free,

Helps to internal ease. Of many such

Could I discourse; but as their stay was brief

So their departure only left behind

Fancies, and loose conjectures. Other trace

Survives, for worthy mention, of a Pair

Who, from the pressure of their several fates,

Meeting as Strangers, in a petty Town

Whose blue roofs ornament a distant reach

Of this far-winding Vale, remained as Friends

True to their choice; and gave their bones in trust

To this loved Cemetery, here to lodge

With unescutcheoned privacy interred

Far from the Family-vault.—A Chieftain One

By right of birth; within whose spotless breast

The fire of ancient Caledonia burned.

He, with the foremost whose impatience hailed

The Stuart, landing to resume, by force

Of arms, the crown which Bigotry had lost,

Arouzed his clan; and, fighting at their head,