[381] “Now pass thou forward, as thou wert wont, and Douglas will follow thee or die!”—with these words Douglas threw from him the heart of Bruce into mid-battle against the Moors of Spain.
NATURE’S FAREWELL.
“The beautiful is vanish’d, and returns not.”
Coleridge’s “Wallenstein.”
A youth rode forth from his childhood’s home,
Through the crowded paths of the world to roam;
And the green leaves whisper’d, as he pass’d,
“Wherefore, thou dreamer! away so fast?
“Knew’st thou with what thou art parting here,
Long wouldst thou linger in doubt and fear;