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Notes On Literature Science, And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE SCIENCE , AND ART .
BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHAM TWJLDDKLL . Author of "Shakspere , his Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham" " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage" " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Hedcar , Coatham , and Saltburn b y the Sea , " " The History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , " Sfc , Syc . T ^ TA MAWR ( whose numerous poems have been highly commended by Lord Ltton ,
y - * - * Sir John Iierschel , the Rev . George GUfiUan , James Gregor Grant , Dr . Thonlas Dick , and many others , and whose beautiful volume , The Story of Count Ulaslci , cj-c , is worthy of a very wide circulation ) , has kindly lent me the manuscript of an unpublished poem , entitled The Tour of " thc Sax , "—for so the Scotch clubbed herself and five female companions who made the tour of Scotland , visiting most of the places of pubUc interest , without a single male defender , nearly half a century ago : —¦
" And some did say tho Sax ' s praise Should be the subject of their lays . But that thc critics all agree , Without some flowery simile , Poetic compliments won't do , And are , in fact , not worth a sous , — A rule established in such cases ;
And oh , ye hapless Nymphs , to you No classic simile was clue , Since for the Muses three too few , And three too many for the Graces !" As Melrose Abbey , like all the noble works of art left us by our ancient operative brethren , cannot be without interest to any true Freemason , I here publish , for the first time , the lines she wrote in the Guide ' s register of visitors to that classic pile : —
"MELROSE ABBEY . '• ' Oh ! fair arc tho scenes that bright Albyn displays ,. And worthy the wanderer ' s transport to raise ; Where the wild charms of Nature , tho soft ones of Art , Still dazzle the eyes and enrapture the heart . And where o ' er a sconeso attractive alone
, , A spell of enchantment by song has been thrown , Then sacred becomes what was lovely before , We more than admire ifr—wc almost adore ! Favour'd Ruin ! more fortunate though in decline Than if still in the light of thy youth thou couldst shine ; Since Fame has arrested fleet Time on his way , And Genius has given fresh life to Decay .
We leave thee , fair Albyn ! bat deeply imprest On Memory ' s tablets thine image shall rest ; And longest her glances shall love to repose On the grey mould'ring turrets of lovely Melrose . Still the harp of tho Minstrel shall sound on our ear , Still to Fancy the forms of the Past shall
appear : Oh ! ne ' er can the scone or the bard be forgot , Where the scene was a Meb •<__* . —the bard was a Scott 1 " Mr . Angus M ' acpherson , the author of numerous clever books both in prose and poetry , has just published a small work on Good Templary , in which order—or rather
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Notes On Literature Science, And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE SCIENCE , AND ART .
BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHAM TWJLDDKLL . Author of "Shakspere , his Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham" " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage" " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Hedcar , Coatham , and Saltburn b y the Sea , " " The History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , " Sfc , Syc . T ^ TA MAWR ( whose numerous poems have been highly commended by Lord Ltton ,
y - * - * Sir John Iierschel , the Rev . George GUfiUan , James Gregor Grant , Dr . Thonlas Dick , and many others , and whose beautiful volume , The Story of Count Ulaslci , cj-c , is worthy of a very wide circulation ) , has kindly lent me the manuscript of an unpublished poem , entitled The Tour of " thc Sax , "—for so the Scotch clubbed herself and five female companions who made the tour of Scotland , visiting most of the places of pubUc interest , without a single male defender , nearly half a century ago : —¦
" And some did say tho Sax ' s praise Should be the subject of their lays . But that thc critics all agree , Without some flowery simile , Poetic compliments won't do , And are , in fact , not worth a sous , — A rule established in such cases ;
And oh , ye hapless Nymphs , to you No classic simile was clue , Since for the Muses three too few , And three too many for the Graces !" As Melrose Abbey , like all the noble works of art left us by our ancient operative brethren , cannot be without interest to any true Freemason , I here publish , for the first time , the lines she wrote in the Guide ' s register of visitors to that classic pile : —
"MELROSE ABBEY . '• ' Oh ! fair arc tho scenes that bright Albyn displays ,. And worthy the wanderer ' s transport to raise ; Where the wild charms of Nature , tho soft ones of Art , Still dazzle the eyes and enrapture the heart . And where o ' er a sconeso attractive alone
, , A spell of enchantment by song has been thrown , Then sacred becomes what was lovely before , We more than admire ifr—wc almost adore ! Favour'd Ruin ! more fortunate though in decline Than if still in the light of thy youth thou couldst shine ; Since Fame has arrested fleet Time on his way , And Genius has given fresh life to Decay .
We leave thee , fair Albyn ! bat deeply imprest On Memory ' s tablets thine image shall rest ; And longest her glances shall love to repose On the grey mould'ring turrets of lovely Melrose . Still the harp of tho Minstrel shall sound on our ear , Still to Fancy the forms of the Past shall
appear : Oh ! ne ' er can the scone or the bard be forgot , Where the scene was a Meb •<__* . —the bard was a Scott 1 " Mr . Angus M ' acpherson , the author of numerous clever books both in prose and poetry , has just published a small work on Good Templary , in which order—or rather