Part 193 (1/2)

”The bard | on Ett | -rick's reen In Na | -ture's bo | -som nursed | had been, And oft | had marked | in for | -est lone Her beau | -ties on | her moun | -tain throne; Had seen | her deck | the wild | -wood tree, And star | with snow | -y gems | the lea; In love | _-li~est c=ol_ | -ours paint | the plain, And sow | the old | -en mead | andclear, Where shad | _-=ow=y fl=ocks_ | of pur | -est snow See in | a world | below”

JAMES HOGG: _The Queen's Wake_, p 76

_Exahteen, Addressed to the Ettrick Shepherd_

”O Shep | -herd! since | 'tis thine | to boast The fas | -cinat | -ing pow'rs | of song, Far, far | above | the count | -less host, Who swell | the Mus | -es' sup | -_pli~ant throng_,

The GIFT | OF God | distrust | no uide; Be heard | thy harp | fro's | reward | thy coun | -try's pride”

B BARTON: _Verses prefixed to the Queen's Wake_

_Exaiac Stanzas,” in Iae! | But why | complain?

Ask rath | -er a | triuar | -land of | ihs To bind | around | the Chris | -tian's brows, Whose glo | _-rious work_ | is done

We pay | a high | and ho | -ly debt; No tears | of pas | -sionate | regret Shall stain | this vo | -tive lay; Ill-wor | -thy, Beau | -s | itself | on wild | relief When Saints | have passed | away”

W WORDSWORTH: _Poetical Works_, First complete Amer Ed, p 208

This line, the ialish verse, and has been much used, both in couplets and in stanzas

Butler's Hudibras, Gay's Fables, and ories, most of Scott's poetical works, and some of Byron's, are written in couplets of this measure It is liable to the sa metre

The frequent ad double rhyme, seems admirably to adapt it to a fa e par | -cel brings | you _tidings_ Of our | good Dean's | eter | -nal _chidings_; Of Nel | -ly's pert | -ness, Rob | -in's _leasings_, And Sher | -idan's | perpet | -ual _teasings_

This box | is cra | -iste | -rial pride”

DEAN SWIFT: _British Poets_, Vol v, p 334

The following lines have _ten syllables_ in each, yet the measure is not iambic of five feet, but that of four with hypere | phi_losopher_, Who had | read Al | -exan | -der _Ross over_”--_Butler's Hudibras_

”I'll make | them serve | for per | -pen_diculars_, As true | as e'er | were us'd | by _bricklayers_”

--_Ib_, Part ii, C iii, l 1020

MEASURE VI--IAMBIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER

_Exa_

”Now teach | me, maid | compos'd To breathe | some soft | -en'd strain”--_Collins_, p 39

This short measure has seldom, if ever, been used alone in many successive couplets; but it is often found in stanzas, soths, butare a few examples:--

_Example I--Two ancient Stanzas, out of Many_,

”This while | we are | abroad, Shall we | not touch | our lyre?

Shall we | not sing | an ode?

Shall now | that ho | -ly fire, In us, | that strong | -ly glow'd, In this | cold air, | expire?