The Highlands Swelling Blue

Mad Welshie · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:01 pm Post subject: The Highlands Swelling Blue

He who first met the Highlands swelling blue
Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue,
Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face,
And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace.
Long have I roamed through lands which are not mine.
Adored the Alp and loved the Apennine,
Revered Parnassus and beheld the steep
Jove's Ida and Olympus crown the deep.
But t'was not all long ages' lore, nor all
Their nature held me in their thrilling thrall;
The infant rapture still survived the boy,
And Loch-na-gar with Ida look'd o'er Troy.
Mix'd Celtic memories with Phrygian mount,
And Highland linns with Castalie's clear fount.
Forgive me, Homer's universal shade,
Forgive me, Phoebus, that my fancy stray'd;
The north and nature taught me to adore
Your scenes sublime, from those beloved before.

Written by Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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Bluemoon · Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 171 Location: SW from Glasgow

I like that

Lord Blackadder · Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 2953

I'd like it better if people posted up their own original pieces.

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WACOlives · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 897 Location: east sussex

RIGHT..
I like that poem, its very good
Clean airy n healthy
An' nothing rude!

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Mad Welshie · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject:

Thank you Waco

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Guest · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject:

When I saw "Highland Swelling Blue" I thought it was about an illness....

Lord Blackadder · Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 2953