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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ... waste and weary road, A present, all-pervading God! Malcolm. MY NATIVE LAND. Where'er we wander, still we find A thousand cares on either hand; But none can feel true grief of mind, Unless far from his native land. When to invoke the future, high The Captive lifts his chain-gall'd hand; That chain--alas!--he heaves so high, Reminds him of his native land. If borne by fancy, while he sleeps, To where his cottage used to stand, With joy he wakes, but waking weeps, To find no more his native land. If, kindly, to relieve his pain, Some friendly, generous hearts expand, He would be happy, but in vain, It minds him of his native land. Should e'er it be my lot to stray, To be by southern breezes fann'd, How much I love thee, native land! Or, if to climes enrobed in snow, And lock'd in winter's icy band, By adamantine fate obliged to go, I'll think of thee, my native land. Time shakes his glass, and swiftly run Life's sands, still ebbing grain by grain, --For weary, wan, autumnal sun, Brings round my birth-day once again; And lights me, like the fading bloom Of pale October, to the tomb. My birth-day! Each revolving year--It seems to me a darker day; Whose dying flowers, and leaflets sere, With solemn warning, seem to say, MY BIRTH-DAY. That all on earth like shadows fly;--That nought abideth 'neath the sky. My birth-day! Where, when life was young, Is now each promise which it gave? Hope's early wreaths have long been hung, Pale, faded garlands, o'er its grave, Where memory waters with her tears, Those relics of departed years. My birth-day! Where the loved ones now, On whom, in happier times, it dawn'd? Each beaming eye, and sunny brow, Low in the dark and dreamless land Now sleep, --where I shall slumber soon, like all beneath the sun and moon. My birth-day! Once...

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