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 In silence o'er the main, In silence o'er the main, And when the western breezes spring,, the western breezes sp '.nng, We seize with joy, &e.. THE ' HORN. SWifT from the covert the merry pack fled, While bounding they sprang over valley and meed; Wide-spreading his antlers, erected his head, The stag his enemies scorning. 0 had you seen then, through torrent, through brake, Each sportsma right gallant his rival race take, 'T would please be.auty's ear to have heard echo wake To the hunter's horn in the morning. Clear'd was the forest, the mountain pass'd o'er; , Yet freshly their riders the willing steeds bore: The river rs!I'd deep where the stag spurn'd the shore, Yet own'd no timorous warning. $o close was he follow'd, the foam where he prung, Encircled and sparkled the coursers among, %Vhile the dogs of the chase the rude melody rung, To the hunter's horn in the morning. co WHxv.- the hunter o'er the mountable, at dybrk b bou_nding, By the wild ri!ly fountain, the chamois doscries; Through the*mit of the morning, his hallo resoudis Every fear nobly scorning, still onward he flies. When the hunler o'er the mountain, At daybreak is bounding, ' By the wild filly fountain, �The chamois descries, the chamois, &e.

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