224 PRETTY MAID.-WELCOME SUMMER. PRETTY MAID. THERE was a pretty plough-boy, A ploughing of his land, Made his horses stand under a shade, Breezy zephyr caught the echo, Pretty maid! By the streamlet's dimpling bosom, And bade her whisper down the dell, "Your maid! Soon will meet you by the fountain in the shade.” WELCOME SUMMER BACK AGAIN. Air." HIGHLAND HARRY BACK AGAIN." IN Flora's train the graces wait, And chase rude winter from the plain; SPRING'S ANTICIPATION. The budding wild will soon perfume The air, when balm'd by April's rain, The mavis sings his cheerful strain, When yellow cowslips scent the mead, Flowering all the woodland scene, SPRING'S ANTICIPATION. THOUGH winter o'er the hills and glens, Yet soon the lovely days of spring Will leaf the bending grove; Then soft the breeze will fan the air, And all will breathe of love. 225 I sat within the holly's shade, Bright winter's sun shone o'er me; Awakening with the blackbird's call, The drooping snow-drop's blowing; The cowslip, and the violets blue, On the gale their sweet breaths are strewing: Oh it is sweet in glen or grove, To watch young spring's return, On wind-flower bank, or crocus bed, Where the murmuring waters run. DUNOON. SEE the glow-worm lits her fairy lamp, Her fairy lamp's pale silvery glare, From the dew-clad, moorland flower, Invite my wandering footsteps there, At the lonely twilight hour. DUNOON. When the distant beacon's revolving light And the dim-seen steam-boat's hollow sound, When the glow-worm lits her elfin lamp, Eliza! with thee, in this solitude, Life's cares would pass away, Like the fleecy clouds over gray Kilmun, 227 The Glow-worm (Lampyris Noctiluca) on mild summer evenings, especially after a shower of rain, are to be found in great abundance among the long grass and moss between Dunoon and the Holy-Loch, where the surrounding scenery renders this singular insect doubly interesting. The female is larger than the male, and emits a beautiful light (apparently phosphorescent, but not really so), for the purpose of attracting the male; this issues from the four last rings of the abdomen: the male has a power of emitting a feeble light, but very disproportionate to that of the female. Two or three of these insects inclosed in a glass vase, will give a light sufficient to enable a person to read in the darkest night. There are fifty-two species of this insect scattered over the four quarters of the globe, of which two only are found in our own country, viz. the Glow-worm and the Fire-fly. wwww KELVIN GROVE. LET us haste to Kelvin grove, bonnie lassie, O, Paints the hollow dingle side, Where the midnight fairies glide, bonnie lassie, O. Let us wander by the mill, bonnie lassie, O, Of the roaring waters' fall, Through the mountain's rocky ball, bonnie lassie, O. O Kelvin banks are fair, bonnie lassie, O, Throws a soft, but sweet perfume, Round the yellow banks of broom, bonnie lassie, O. J Though I dare not call thee mine, bonnie lassie, O, As the smile of fortune's thine, bonnie lassie, O, Yet with fortune on my side, I could stay thy father's pride, And win thee for my bride, bonnie lassie, O. But the frowns of fortune lower, bonnie lassie, O, On thy lover at this hour, bonnie lassie, O, Ere yon golden orb of day Wake the warblers on the spray, From this land I must away, bonnie lassie, O. |