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Both roses flourish, red and white.
In love and sisterly delight

The two that were at strife are blended,
And all old troubles now are ended.
Joy! joy to both! but most to her
Who is the flower of Lancaster!
Behold her, how she smiles to-day
On this great throng, this bright array!
Fair greeting doth she send to all,
From every corner of the hall;
But chiefly from above the board,
Where sits in state our rightful lord,
A Clifford to his own restored!

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They came with banner, spear, and shield; And it was proved in Bosworth field. Not long the avenger was withstood; Earth help'd him with the cry of blood: St. George was for us, and the might Of blessed angels crown'd the right. Loud voice the land has utter'd forth, We loudest in the faithful North: Our fields rejoice, our mountains ring, Our streams proclaim a welcoming; Our strong abodes and castles see The glory of their loyalty.

"How glad is Skipton at this hour, Though she is but a lonely tower, To vacancy and silence left;

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Knight, squire, or yeoman, page or groom,'
We have them at the feast of Brough'm.
How glad Pendragon-though the sleep
Of years be on her! She shall reap
A taste of this great pleasure, viewing,
As in a dream, her own renewing.
Rejoiced is Brough, right glad, I deem,
Beside her little humble stream;
And she that keepeth watch and ward,
Her statelier Eden's course to guard;

They both are happy at this hour,
Though each is but a lonely tower:
But here is perfect joy and pride
For one fair house by Emont's side,
This day distinguish'd without peer,
To see her master and to cheer-
Him, and his lady mother dear!
"Oh! it was a time forlorn
When the fatherless was born:
Give her wings that she may fly,
Or she sees her infant die!

Swords that are with slaughter wild
Hunt the mother and the child.
Who will take them from the light?
Yonder is a man in sight:
Yonder is a house, but where?
No, they must not enter there.
To the caves and to the brooks,
To the clouds of heaven she looks;
She is speechless, but her eyes
Pray in ghostly agonies.
Blissful Mary, mother mild,
Maid and mother undefiled,

Save a mother and her child!

"Now who is he that bounds with joy On Carrock's side, a shepherd boy? No thoughts hath he but thoughts that pass Light as the wind along the grass. Can this be he who hither came In secret, like a smother'd flame? O'er whom such thankful tears were shed For shelter, and a poor man's bread! God loves the child; and God hath will'd That those dear words should be fulfill'd; The lady's words, when forced away, The last she to her babe did say: 'My own, my own, thy fellow-guest I may not be; but rest thee, rest, For lowly shepherd's life is best!'

"Alas! when evil men are strong, No life is good, no pleasure long.

The boy must part from Mosedale's groves,
And leave Blencathara's rugged coves,
And quit the flowers that summer brings
To Glenderamakin's lofty springs;
Must vanish, and his careless cheer
Be turn'd to heaviness and fear.
Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise!
Hear it, good man, old in days!
Thou tree of covert and of rest
For this young bird that is distress'd;
Among thy branches safe he lay,
And he was free to sport and play,
When falcons were abroad for prey.

"A recreant harp, that sings of fear
And heaviness in Clifford's ear!
I said, when evil men are strong,
No life is good, no pleasure long:
A weak and cowardly untruth!
Our Clifford was a happy youth,
And thankful through a weary time,
That brought him up to manhood's prime.
Again he wanders forth at will,

And tends a flock from hill to hill:
His garb is humble; ne'er was seen
Such garb with such a noble mien ;
Among the shepherd-grooms no mate
Hath he, a child of strength and state!
Yet lacks not friends for solemn glee,
And a cheerful company,

That learn'd of him submissive ways,
And comforted his private days.
To his side the fallow-deer
Came, and rested without fear,

The eagle, lord of land and sea,
Stoop'd down to pay him fealty;
And both the undying fish that swim
Through Bowscale Tarn did wait on him;
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The pair were servants of his eye
In their immortality;

They moved about in open sight,
To and fro, for his delight.

He knew the rocks which angels haunt
On the mountains visitant;

He hath kenn'd them taking wing:
And the caves where faeries sing
He hath enter'd; and been told
By voices how men lived of old.
Among the heavens his eye can see
Face of thing that is to be;
And, if men report him right,
He could whisper words of might.
Now another day is come,
Fitter hope, and nobler doom;
He hath thrown aside his crook,
And hath buried deep his book;
Armour rusting in his halls
On the blood of Clifford calls;
'Quell the Scot,' exclaims the lance:
'Bear me to the heart of France,'

Is the longing of the shield;

Tell thy name, thou trembling field;
Field of death, where'er thou be,
Groan thou with our victory!
Happy day, and mighty hour,

When our shepherd, in his power,

Mail'd and horsed, with lance and sword,
To his ancestors restored

Like a reappearing star,

Like a glory from afar,

First shall head the flock of war!"

Alas! the fervent harper did not know
That for a tranquil soul the lay was framed,
Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go,
Was soften'd into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed.

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Love had he found in huts where poor men lie;
His daily teachers had been woods and rills,
The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

In him the savage virtue of the race,
Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts, were dead :
Nor did he change; but kept in lofty place
The wisdom which adversity had bred.

Glad were the vales, and every cottage hearth;
The shepherd-lord was honour'd more and more;
And, ages after he was laid in earth,

"The good Lord Clifford" was the name he bore.

THOMAS CAMPBELL.

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1777.

FROM THE PLEASURES OF HOPE."

Ar summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene' More pleasing seems than all the past hath been; And every form that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there.

What potent spirit guides the raptured eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?

Can Wisdom lend, with all her heavenly power,
The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour?

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