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The fiery sparks aye bursting from his een
To purge the air and gild the tender green.

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Welcome, the lord of light and lamp of day;
Welcome, fosterer of tender herbis green;
Welcome, quickener of flourish'd flowers sheen ;
Welcome, support of every root and vane;
Welcome, comfort of all kind fruit and grain;
Welcome, the birds green beild upon the brier;
Welcome, master and ruler of the year;
Welcome, welfare of husbands at the ploughs;
Welcome, repairer of woods, trees, and boughs;
Welcome, depainter of the bloomit meads;
Welcome, the life of everything that spreads.

GAWIN DOUGLAS.

THE PAPINGO'S FAREWELL.

ADIEU, Edinburgh, thou hie triumphant toun,
Within whose bounds right blithful have I been;
Of true merchants the root of this region,
Most ready to receive court, king, and queen;

Thy policy and justice may be seen;

Were devotion, wisdom, and honesty,

And credence, lost-they might be found in thee.

Adieu fair Snowdon, with thy towers hie,
Thy chapel-royal, park, and table round;
May, June, and July, would I dwell in thee,
Were I ane man to hear the birdis sound,
Whilk doth against thy royal rock redound.
Adieu Lithgow, whose palace of pleasance,
Might be ane patern in Portugal or France.

Farewell, Falkland, the fortress-tower of Fife,
Thy polite park, under the Lomond Law;
Sometime in thee I led ane lustie life,
The fallow deer to see them range in raw.
Court men to come to thee they stand great awe,
Saying thy burgh bene of all burghs baill

Because in thee they never gat good ale.

LINDSAY.

THE DAY OF DOOM.

THEN with ane roar the earth shall rive,
And swallow them, baith man and wife;
Then shall those creatures all forlorn,
Warie the hour that they were born.
With many a yammer, yowt, and yell,
What time they feel the flamis fell
Upon their tender bodies bite,

Whose torment shall be infinite.

The earth shall close, and from their sight
Sall taken be all glimpse of light;

There sall be howling and greeting,

But hope of any comforting;
In that inestimable pain
Eternally they shall remain,
Burning in furious flamis red,
Ever dying, but never dead,

That the small minute of one hour
To them sall be sae great dolour,
They sall think they have done remain
Ane thousand year into that pain.

LINDSAY.

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