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HIGHLANDER:

Luors Mackenziz

POEM:

IN

Six CANTOS.

B. Temer Macherson, Transistor of Ofsian's Poems.

Cætera que vacuas tenuissent carmina mentes,
Omnia jam vulgata.-

VIRG.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by WAL. RUDDIMAN jun. and COMPANY;

M DCC LVIII

HIGHLANDER:

A

POEM

T

CANTO I.

HE youth I fing, who, to himself unknown,

Loft to the world and CALEDONIA's throne,

Sprung o'er his mountains to the arms of Fame,
And, wing'd by Fate, his fire's avenger, came;
That knowledge learn'd, fo long deny'd by fate,
And found that blood, as merit, made him great.
The aged chieftain on the bier is laid,
And grac'd with all the honours of the dead;
The youthful warriors, as the corfe they bear,
Droop the fad head, and fhed the gen'rous tear.
For Abria's fhore, Tay's winding banks they leave,
And bring the Hero to his father's grave.

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