Fugitive poems connected with natural history and physical science / collected by the late C.G.B. Daubeny.

Date:
1869
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Credit: Fugitive poems connected with natural history and physical science / collected by the late C.G.B. Daubeny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wonderful! Who can declare the ■wealth of luminous glory, Flowing in radiant ocean3 where stars are wheeling in mazes Yast, uncounted, unscanned by the glass of the far-sighted gazer ? Me such glory confounds. I rather with wise limitation Feed on the shows of truth, and chiefly the sights of my dear loved Strong Caledonian home, the land of the flood and the mountain. Beautiful Scotland! or where thy broad hills, smooth, green-mantled, Slope to the lowland fringed with the pomp of mansion and villa, Rich, well-gardened; or where the might of the Grampian rises High, far-sweeping, majestic, and flushing wide with the purple, Springy heather, deer-trodden. How blest to the foot is the labour, High from the breezy heath to brush the dew, Caledonia! Whether pursuing the stag to his haunt on the lone, rock-girdled Mountain tarn, or regaling the eye with grandeur of high-piled Feak on peak, and feasting the ear with music of waters