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...appropriate epitaph for our honoured bard than in the glowing words of our own Sir Walter Scott — " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that when...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." During the delivery of his speech, the learned Sheriff was frequently and rapturously applauded. At...

...have his shrine, in the midst of objects which invoked his minstrelsy, and which remember his loss : " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say that, when...Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates bis obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains...

...THE GEAVE OF DM MOIR (DELTA), IN INVEEESK CHURCHYARD. Oh ! blame them not, they do not err Who aay that, when the poet dies. Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequiea. (IB W. SCOTT. LONELY and low, in silent dust, Beneath that sod of waving green, Delta, thou...

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...tongue, That He who died below, and reigns above, Inspires the song, and that his name is Love. COWPEE. Call it not vain; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, Mute nature mourna her worshiper, And celebrates his obsequies. SUOTT. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,...

...Poeoy serveth and conferretb to raagna, morality, and to delectation. Bacon. POET— Death of the. Call it not vain : they do not err, Who say that when...say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard may moan ; The mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his...

...poetic imagination in the fine stanzas of Sir Walter Scott in the " Lay of the Last Minstrel " : — " Call it not vain— they do not err Who say that when the poet dies, Mnte Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," &c. Shepherds with hearts so true,...

...midnight the roll and clash of the sea-waves sound lullingly from below, and all around is peace. " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groans, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." Nearly a mile...

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