CaledniaA Ballad
caledonia—a ballad tune—“caledonian hunts' delight” ow. there was once a day, but old time wasythen young, that brave caledonia, the chief of her line, from some of your northeries sprung, (who knows not that brave caledonia's divine?) from tweed to the orcades was her domain, to hunt, or to pasture, or do what she would: her heav'nly relations there fixed her reign, and pledg'd her their godheads to warrant it good. a lambkin in peace, but a lion in war, the pride of her kihe heroine grew: her grandsire, old odin, triumphantly swore,— “whoe'er shall provoke thee, th' enter shall rue!” with tillage or pasture at times she would sport, to feed her fair flocks by her green rustling ; but chiefly the woods were her fav'rite resort, her darling amusement, the hounds and the horn. long quiet she reigill thitherward steers a flight of bold eagles from adria's strand: repeated, successive, for many long years, they darken'd the air, and they plunder'd the land: their pounces were murder, and terror their cry, they'd quer'd and ruin'd a world beside; she took to her hills, and her arrows let fly, the daring ihey fled or they died. the cameleon-savage disturb'd her repose, with tumult, disquiet, rebellion, and strife; provok'd beyond bearing, at last she arose, and robb'd him at once of his hopes and his life: the anglian lion, the terror of france, oft prowling, ensanguin'd the tweed's silver flood; but, taught by the bright caledonian lance, he learo fear in his own native wood. the fell harpy-raven took wing from the north, the sce of the seas, and the dread of the shore; the wild sdinavian boar issued forth to wanton in age and wallow in gore: o'er tries and kingdoms their fury prevail'd, no arts could appease them, no arms could repel; but brave caledonia in vain they assail'd, as largs well witness, and loncartie tell. thus bold, indepe, unquer'd, and free, her bright course of glory for ever shall run: for brave caledonia immortal must be; i'll prove it from euclid as clear as the sun: regle—triahe figure we'll chuse: the upright is ce, and old time is the base; but brave caledonia's the hypothenuse; then, ergo, she'll match them, and match them always.