Nor far some Andalusian saraband Would sound to many a native roundelay— But who is he that yet a dearer land Remembers over hills and far away? Green Albin![30] what though he no more survey Thy ships at anchor on the quiet shore, Thy pellochs[31] rolling from the mountain bay, Thy lone sepulchral cairn upon the moor, And distant isles that hear the loud Corbrechtan roar![32] VI. Alas! poor Caledonia’s mountaineer, That want’s stern edict e’er, and feudal grief, Had forced him from a home he loved so dear! Yet found he here a home, and glad relief, And plied the beverage from his own fair sheaf, That fired his Highland blood with mickle glee: And England sent her men, of men the chief, Who taught those sires of Empire yet to be, To plant the tree of life,—to plant fair Freedom’s tree! VII. Here was not mingled in the city’s pomp Of life’s extremes the grandeur and the gloom; Judgment awoke not here her dismal tromp, Nor sealed in blood a fellow-creature’s doom, Nor mourned the captive in a living tomb. One venerable man, beloved of all, Sufficed, where innocence was yet in bloom, To sway the strife, that seldom might befall: And Albert was their judge in patriarchal hall. VIII. How reverend was the look, serenely aged, He bore, this gentle Pennsylvanian sire, Where all but kindly fervours were assuaged, Undimmed by weakness’ shade, or turbid ire! And though, amidst the calm of thought entire, Some high and haughty features might betray A soul impetuous once, ’twas earthly fire That fled composure’s intellectual ray, As Etna’s fires grow dim before the rising day. IX. I boast no song in magic wonders rife, But yet, oh, Nature! is there nought to prize, Familiar in thy bosom scenes of life? And dwells in daylight truth’s salubrious skies No form with which the soul may sympathise?— Young, innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise, An inmate in the home of Albert smiled, Or blest his noonday walk—she was his only child. X. The rose of England bloomed on Gertrude’s cheek— What though these shades had seen her birth, her sire A Briton’s independence taught to seek Far western worlds; and there his household fire The light of social love did long inspire, And many a halcyon day he lived to see Unbroken but by one misfortune dire, When fate had reft his mutual heart—but she Was gone—and Gertrude climbed a widowed father’s knee. XI. A loved bequest,—and I may half impart— To them that feel the strong paternal tie, How like a new existence to his heart That living flower uprose beneath his eye, Dear as she was from cherub infancy, From hours when she would round his garden play, To time when as the ripening years went by, Her lovely mind could culture well repay, And more engaging grew; from pleasing day to day. XII.