And freedom to unbounded licence grown,

Had ancient rights and due restraints o'erthrown ;
When softening arts and luxury's increase,
Made valour droop even in her native GREECE;
Th' intrepid sons of fearless poverty

Made PERSIAN kings in wild amazement fly;
Bade ATHENS, sunk in conscious shame, behold
Their SPARTAN iron conquer PERSIAN gold;
And faithful to each dear and hallow'd tie,
Preserve the sacred flame of liberty.

Now, Chiefs and Senators—ye patriot band!
Born to illume, protect, and bless the land;
While the loose furies rage in other climes,
And Nature sickens at her children's crimes;
While GALLIA pours profuse the purple flood,
And stains her lillies with her Monarch's blood;
Encircle like an adamantine zone

The hallow'd altar and the honour'd throne;
And let your banners, rais'd aloft, reveal
The blended interests of the general weal :
Draw close those ties, so fine, and yet so strong,
That gently lead the willing soul along,
Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod
The kindred image of the parent Gop;

Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind
The native force of the superior mind.

"Twas not from such the glowing ardour rose
That followers drew to WALLACE and MONTROSE.
Brethren in martial toils-affection fond,

Kind twisting round each heart the lasting bond;
Like that wide chain, which, when creation rose,
Did all the mighty Maker's works inclose,
Whose closing ties celestial voices sung,
While all the answering constellations rung,
Which joins the worlds below to those above
With golden links, and angels call it-LOVE!

END OF THE HIGHLANDERS.

NOTES

ON

THE HIGHLANDERS.

No. 1.

Our hardy myrtle scatter'd fragrance round.-P. 22.

This plant, which the natives call Rhoit, resembles the myrtle in its aromatic smell, though it is very unlike it in its leaves. It abounds in boggy places, and produces in rich shelter'd spots a berry resembling the bilberry, but of a larger size and finer flavour.

No. 2.

To view each social hamlet's mutual plough.-P. 23. What the Highlanders call 'm Balli, is a conjunct farm generally occupied by eight families, living together in a kind of scatter'd hamlet; of these, four join together about & plough, each furnishing a horse, and all their rural toils are carried on in the same social manner.

No. 3.

While at the frugal meal the blue smokes rise.-P. 24.

This is a provincial phrase peculiar to the North, and very emphatic as it is used there; they say, "He was a

"good man, for he could see from his door a hundred "smokes rise on his own ground." And again, "He "cannot thrive, for he put out fifty smokes in one morn"ing;" signifying the removal of so many tenants.

No. 4.

Thus lives the theme of many a plaintive lay.-P. 25. SIR JAMES MACDONALD, a young Chief, greatly beloved, and much lamented by his people. He died at Rome in the 25th year of his age.

No. 5.

Repeats emphatic, "They return no more.”—P. 26.

There is a plaintive air which the Highlanders always play on the bagpipes at funerals or on other mournful occasions, which when heard out of Scotland, affects a Highlander much in the same way as 66 Ranz de Vaches" does a Swiss. The words "Ha pill, ha pill, ha pill, mi tuillidh," signify, "We return, return, return, no more. The Author has heard it played to two parties of emigrants marching towards the sea.

No. 6.

In peopled straths, where winding streams prolong.-P. 34.

Strath is an expression peculiar to the Highlands, to the