Lines On The Caledonian Harp Being Succeeded By The Highland Bagpipes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJCC KKFLMM NNOOPPCC| In days that long have glided by | A |
| Beneath keen Scotia's weeping sky | A |
| On many a hill of purple heath | B |
| In many a gloomy glen beneath | B |
| The wand'ring Lyrist once was known | C |
| To pour his harp's entrancing tone | C |
| Then when the castle's rocky form | D |
| Rose 'mid the dark surrounding storm | D |
| The Harper had a sacred seat | E |
| Whence he might breathe his wild notes sweet | E |
| Oh then when many a twinkling star | F |
| Shone in the azure vault afar | F |
| And mute was ev'ry mountain bird | G |
| Soft music from the harp was heard | G |
| And when the morning's blushes shed | H |
| On hill or tow'r their varying red | H |
| Oh then the harp was heard to cheer | I |
| With earliest sound th' enraptur'd ear | J |
| Then many a lady fair was known | C |
| With snowy hand to wake its tone | C |
| And infant fingers press'd the string | K |
| And back recoil'd to hear it sing | K |
| Sweet instrument such was thy pow'r | F |
| 'Twas thine to gladden ev'ry hour | L |
| The young and old then honour'd thee | M |
| And smil'd to hear thy melody | M |
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| Alas as Time has turn'd to dust | N |
| The temple fair the beauteous bust | N |
| Thou too hast mark'd his frowning brow | O |
| No Highland echo knows thee now | O |
| A savage has usurp'd thy place | P |
| Once fill'd by thee with ev'ry grace | P |
| Th' inflated Pipe with swinish drone | C |
| Calls forth applauses once thine own | C |
John Carr (sir)
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