Walter Scott on Nature
1771–1832 Scotland
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If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!
Marmion (1808)
Come as the winds come, when
Forests are rended,
Come as the waves come, when
Navies are stranded.
Pibroch of Donald Dhu (1816)
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer queen.
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee;
I prithee, dear moon, now show to me
The form and the features, the speech and degree,
Of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
It's hame, and it's hame, and it's hame we fain would be,
Though the cloud is in the lift and the wind is on the lea;
For the sun through the mirk blinks blithe on mine e'e,
Says, "I'll shine on ye yet in your ain countrie."