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. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... PRINCE CHARLIE. 91 When light as any fawn I ran Down through the shady grove To a rosy bower in the twilight hour To meet my own true love: To every flower that round me grew I bent as at a shrine; From roses red to violets blue That in the shade did shine. A streamlet there did gush along, With song and ...
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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. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... PRINCE CHARLIE. 91 When light as any fawn I ran Down through the shady grove To a rosy bower in the twilight hour To meet my own true love: To every flower that round me grew I bent as at a shrine; From roses red to violets blue That in the shade did shine. A streamlet there did gush along, With song and silver sheen, Close by the gate where he did wait, 'Neath towering trees so green. I leave thee, dear old Careston, Fast falling in decay; Thy grandeur has departed now, Thy beauty passed away. PRINCE CHARLIE. ID ragged rocks where eagles soar, Where storms and tempests rave and roar, And often by the lonesome shore Did wander Royal Charlie. A price was set upon his head, They cared not if alive or dead; They pressed him sorely in his need--The hapless Royal Charlie. 92 PRINCE CHARLIE. O! fate was false to him indeed, His garments worn out to a thread; And oft was he in want of bread In the haunts of wild Glengarry. The head that should have worn a crown In shepherd's plaid he laid him down; No choice had he of dressing gown, "When hunted in Glengarry. His curtain was the tasseled broom, His chandelier the silver moon, That gleamed down on him through the gloom In the depths of wild Glengarry. The stars did twinkle o'er his head, And snow fell on his heather bed, And drifted o'er the lonesome glade, And o'er the shivering Charlie. When all his friends had from him fled, He sought the deepest, darkest shade; And heard nought but the wild deer's tread In the wilds of lone Glengarry. O! how his burdened heart would ache, When beasts rushed through the tangled brake, Or tript the ice on mountain lake, And the frost-bound stream of Garry. He'd bend his eyes quick to and fro To see from whence would start the foe; Anon a spirit whispered low--"Keep...
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