Through years without reply?
—Oh! if thy heart thou wilt not give,
Give me a thought, a sigh!
[389] The first verse of this song is a literal translation from the German.
TO THE
MEMORY OF LORD CHARLES MURRAY,
SON OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, WHO DIED IN THE CAUSE AND LAMENTED BY THE PEOPLE OF GREECE.
“Time cannot teach forgetfulness,
When grief’s full heart is fed by fame.”—Byron.
Thou shouldst have slept beneath the stately pines,
And with th’ ancestral trophies of thy race;