> Methinks that if said volume is in the library, then borrow it --
apparently
> it costs $60 otherwise. I'm aye being surprised by Hogg, and was unware of
> this particular work,
Published 1813. Hogg thought enough of it to make it the first text in his
Collected Poems, though it wasn't the earliest.
> so it is a self-serving recommendation, Roger: let us
> know what you make of it.
>
> What's the C-H EPTD, Robin?
>
> P
The Chadwycke-Healey English Poetic Text Database on 5 CDs.
It is, of course, Quite Illegal to distribute texts extracted from this, so
if anyone wants to save $60, please don't even *think* of asking for it in
a Word file backchannel.
Hm?
Robin
It begins thusly:
THE QUEEN'S WAKE.
DEDICATION TO FIRST EDITION. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF
WALES, A SHEPHERD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS OF SCOTLAND DEDICATES THIS POEM.
INTRODUCTION.
Now burst, ye winter clouds that lower.
Fling from your folds the piercing shower;
Sing to the tower and leafless tree,
Ye cold winds of adversity;
Your blights, your chilling influence shed
On wareless heart and houseless head;
Your ruth or fury I disdain:
I've found my mountain Lyre again.
Come to my heart, my only stay!
Companion of a happier day!
Thou gift of Heaven, thou pledge of good,
Harp of the mountain and the wood!
I little thought, when first I tried
Thy notes by lone Saint Mary's side,
When in a deep untrodden den,
I found thee in the bracken glen -
I little thought that idle toy
Should e'er become my only joy.
A maiden's youthful smiles had wove
Around my heart the toils of love,
When first thy magic wires I rung,
And on the breeze thy numbers flung:
The fervid tear played in mine eye;
I trembled, wept, and wondered why.
Sweet was the thrilling ecstasy;
I know not if 'twas love or thee.
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