“Thou hadst the tear for pity, and thy breast
Felt for the sad, the weary, the oppress’d!
And now, afflicting change! all join with me,
And feel, lamented Romilly, for thee.”
LINES.
(Edinburgh, August 15, 1822.)
Of old, when a Monarch of England appear’d
In Scotland, he came as a foe;
There was war in the land, and around it were heard
Lamentation, and mourning and woe.