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The Brigs Of Ayr (第2/6页)
warm, poetic heart but inly bleeds, and execrates man's savage, ruthless deeds!) nae mair the flow'r in field or meadow springs, nae mair the grove with airy cert rings, except perhaps the robin's whistling glee, proud o' the height o' some bit half-lang tree: the hoary morns precede the sunny days, mild, calm, serene, wide spreads the noontide blaze, while thick the gosamour waves wanton in the rays. 'twas in that season, when a simple bard, unknooor—simplicity's reward!— ae night, within the a brugh of ayr, by whim inspir'd, or haply prest wi' care, he left his bed, and took his wayward route, and down by simpson's wheel'd the left about: (whether impell'd by all-direg fate, to witness what i after shall narrate; or whether, rapt iation high, he wander'd out, he knew not where or why:) the drowsy dungeon-clock had number'd two, and wallace tower had sworn the fact was true: the tide-swoln firth, with sullen-sounding roar, through the still night dash'd hoarse along the shore. all else was hush'd as nature's closed e'e; the silent moon shone high o'er tower and tree; the chilly frost, beh the silver beam, crept, gently-crusting, o'er the glittering stream— when, lo! oher hand the list'ning bard, the ging sugh of whistling wings is heard; two dusky forms dart through the midnight air; swift as the gos drives on the wheeling hare; ane on th' auld brig his airy shape uprears, the other flutters o'er the rising piers: our warlock rhymer instantly dexcried the sprites that owre the brigs of ayr preside. (that bards are sed-sighted is nae joke, ahe lingo of the sp'ritual folk; fays, spunkies, kelpies, a', they explain them, and even the very deils they brawly ken them). auld br