Clydesdale Poems Author:Peter Carmichael Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Isabel! Isabel! Maiden of the flowery dell! Nursed on Kirkfield lovely braes, Where I spent my youthful days— Clyde's clear limpid streamlets flowing, Beauty, li... more »fe and joy bestowing, Breathing an entrancing spell, Dear to me, and Isabel. Isabel! Isabel! Who can life's young scenes repel. Mem'ry still to me recalls Clyde's green vales and foaming falls, Sombre pines and hoary oaks Waving o'er the moss-grown rocks, While deep down the billows swell, In grandeur robed, fair Isabel! Isabel! Isabel! Still in dreams from mem'ry's cell, Fancy soars o'er Cartland steep, Tow'ring o'er the caverns deep, Where in yonder hallowed cave I have sung of Wallace brave, Patriot chief, who fought and fell For Scotia's rights, fair Isabel! Isabel! Isabel! Speed your mission, do it well, Whether in your native home, Or in foreign climes you roam. For mankind in ev'ry age Play their part on life's great stage. Why ? A myst'ry none can tell. We'll know at last, fair Isabel! Isabel! Isabel! O ! where'er on earth you dwell, If to wed should be your fate, Choose a virtuous loving mate, Then your days of waning youth, Guided by the star of truth, Will to joyous rapture swell, And end in peace, fair Isabel! Isabel! Isabel! Soon we'll bid this world farewell; Let us then our day improve, Cultivating peace and love. By the rays of heaven led, Which on humble souls are shed, Then at death's last solemn knell, Life is ours, fair Isabel! 'tutixt JtatjHj anit !f Religion is vain when no actions humane Its heaven-born origin prove, For humanity blends earth and heaven, and lends A halo to infinite love. Though factions combine Heaven's will to define, Through dogmas by crafty men written. They justly deserve the doom they conserve,— A pang of t...« less