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Success to our flag! and when danger is near it, May our pipes be heard playing "The Campbells are coming!"

And an angel voice crying, "O dinna ye hear it?"

Dinna ye hear it? dinna ye hear it? High o'er the battle's din, dinna ye hear it?

High o'er the battle's din, hail it and

cheer it!

"Tis the Highlanders' slogan! O dinna ye hear it?"

WE'LL HA'E NANE BUT HIGHLAND BONNETS HERE.1

Alma, field of heroes, hail!

Alma, glorious to the Gael!

Glorious to the symbol dear,

Glorious to the mountaineer.

Hark, hark to Campbell's battle-cry!

It led the brave to victory;

It thundered through the charging cheer,
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!
It thundered through the charging cheer,
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!

See, see the heights where fight the brave!
See, see the gallant tartans wave!
How wild the work of Highland steel,
When conquered thousands backward reel.
See, see the warriors of the North,
To death or glory rushing forth!
Hark to their shout from front to rear,
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!

Braver field was never won,

Braver deeds were never done;

Braver blood was never shed,

Braver chieftain never led;

Braver swords were never wet

With life's red tide when heroes met!
Braver words ne'er thrilled the ear,
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!

1 This fine song was dedicated to Sir Colin Campbell. At the decisive charge on the heights of Alma, when the Guards were pressing on to share the honour of taking the first guns with the Highlanders, Sir Colin Campbell, cheering on his men, cried aloud, "We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!" How these heroic words acted upon his brave followers is well known.-ED.

Let glory rear her flag of fame,
Brave Scotland cries, "This spot I claim!"
Here will Scotland bare her brand,
Here will Scotland's lion stand!
Here will Scotland's banner fly,
Here Scotland's sons will do or die!
Here shout above the "symbol dear,"
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!
We'll ha'e nane but Highland bonnets here!

SUCCESS TO CAMPBELL'S HIGHLANDMEN.

All beneath an Indian sun,
Another mighty work is done!

Another glorious field is won!

Success to Campbell's Highlandmen!

They march! the dauntless hearts and true! They march! the stainless bonnets blue! They dash the traitor columns through. Success to Campbell's Highlandmen!

Chorus.

Success to Campbell's Highlandmen! Success to Campbell's Highlandmen! They fought the traitors one to ten!

Success to Campbell's Highlandmen!

They charge! the bravest files they break!
They charge! the loudest guns they take!
They charge for dear auld Scotland's sake!
Success to Campbell's Highlandmen!
They fight! lo, blood-stained Lucknow falls!
They fight! their flag is on its walls!
How true their steel! how sure their balls!
Success to Campbell's Highlandmen!

Hail, heroes of a glorious day!
Hail, favourite sons of victory!
Let honours thick your toils repay!
Success to Campbell's Highlandmen!
A nation's love, a nation's praise,
Will wed them to her proudest lays,
And crown with bright immortal bays
Brave Campbell's dauntless Highlandmen!

TO A WOUNDED SEA-BIRD.

I marked the murdering rifle's flash,
I marked thy shattered pinions' dash
Of agony, and heard

Thy wild scream 'bove the wailing blast,
When, stricken low, ye struggled past,
Poor wounded ocean-bird!

And ever as the swelling wave

Thee and thy riven plumage gave
Up to my aching sight,

Thy glossy neck, with terror strained,
Showered forth warm crimson drops, which
stained

The sea-surf, foaming white.

Away! on, on the proud ship flies;

And he who struck thee from the skies-
Heartless destroyer he!-

Feels not a pang for thee, poor thing!
Tossed by the reckless buffeting

Of the cold careless sea.

Thy mates, perchance to bathe their breast,
May seek a while thy wave to rest,

With greetings soothing kind!
But soon, alas! they'll gild the air,
With flashing plumage, fresh and fair,
Leaving thee far behind.

How it will wring thy little heart,
To see thy kindred all depart,

All glad, refreshed, and free!

Thou'lt stretch in vain thy wounded wing,
Thou may'st not from the wave upspring-
Alas! poor bird, for thee!

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WILLIAM B. SCOTT.

author, who in after years has written so much in biography, criticism, and poetry, does not appear to have been distinguished as a pupil.

WILLIAM BELL SCOTT was born at St. Leon- | at the high-school of their native city; but our ards, near Edinburgh, September 12, 1811. The house then inhabited by his father Robert Scott, a landscape - engraver, was an oldfashioned villa, standing by itself, with a coat of arms over the doorway, both outside and inside of the house showing the characteristics of by-past days. Here his boyhood was passed with his two elder brothers and a sister younger than himself, who died when he was still in his teens. This house and sister he has commemorated in a sonnet, which we give among our selections: it also speaks of his loving, pious mother. His father had at this time a large workshop in Edinburgh, which the boys were in the habit of frequenting; and David the eldest having learned to engrave and etch, finally became a painter, the same course being followed by William. The boys were educated

The earliest metrical compositions of William are described as of a very ambitious character, his first being a tragedy of the wildest description, which he diffidently persuaded his school companions he had picked up in the street! His first published poem was the "Address to P. B. Shelley," revised and reprinted in his late illustrated volume. It appeared in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1831-32, and was followed by other pieces, and by several in the "Edinburgh University Souvenir," published at Christmas, 1834. This volume, emulating the annuals then fashionable, was written and produced by a few students in the theological section, these being the most intimate friends

of Scott at this time, although he had long | Having organized the School of Art at Newbefore entered the Trustees' Academy of Art, and had determined his path in life.

At the age of twenty-five he resolved to leave Edinburgh, and proceeded to London in Sept. 1836. He here became acquainted with Leigh Hunt, who was then editing the Monthly Repository, in which Scott printed a poem of considerable length called "Rosabell," afterwards re-christened "Mary Anne," by which he became favourably known. In 1838, when he was beginning to exhibit at the British Institution and elsewhere, he issued his first book, a very small one, called "Hades, or the Transit," two poems with two etchings by himself. This little volume, like his later ones the "Year of the World" and "Poems by a Painter," both of which in their original form were to some extent illustrated with designs by himself, is now an object of rarity and prized as such, although we believe the author would rather it had never been published at all, as the second of the two poems is a juvenile expression of the fact that there is a progress in human affairs as represented by history; and as this formed the motive in the scheme of the only large poem he has produced, the "Year of the World," which is so able and splendid as a whole, he would rather that the latter had stood quite alone.

Before the "Year of the World" was produced Scott had taken a step which seriously militated against his position as a historical painter, by connecting himself with the newly-formed Government Schools of Design, and by leaving London, the centre of the arts in England. |

castle-on-Tyne, however, he was fortunate to be commissioned by Sir Walter Trevelyan to paint eight important pictures for the saloon of his large house at Wallington. These pictures, four of the ancient and four of the later History of the English Border," are among the few excellent monumental works in painting yet existing in England.

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His eldest brother David, the author of two poems, and a painter of great intellectual activity, died in 1849, and William published his memoir in 1850. This volume was the beginning of his prose publications, which have now lengthened out to a considerable list. The next was "Antiquarian Gleanings in the North of England," followed by "Half-hour Lectures on the History and Practice of the Arts." The last we need to mention is "Albert Dürer, his Life and Works,” 1869. Previous to this the volume of miscellaneous poems entitled "Poems by a Painter” had appeared, the date of the first issue being 1864. Mr. Scott was now, if not one of the popular poets-which possibly he never can be--known to the initiated, and appreciated by the "inner circle," and he was content to remain so till 1875, when he thought the time had come when he "should put his poetical house in order." He accordingly issued a beautiful edition of the majority of his poems, entitled "Poems, Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, &c.,” richly illustrated by himself and his friend L. Alma Tadema, R. A. It is now many years since Mr. Scott returned to London, and finally took up his residence there.

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"But why?" she asked,-he only laughed,—
"Why shall it be thus, now speak!
"Because so like a bird art thou,

Thou must live within green trees,
With nightingales and thrushes and wrens,
And the humming of wild bees."

Oh, the shower and the sunshine every day
Pass and pass, be ye sad, be ye gay.

"Nay, nay, you jest, no wren am I,

Nor thrush nor nightingale,

And rather would keep this arras and wall "Tween me and the wind's assail.

I like to hear little Minnie's gay laugh,

And the whistle of Japes the page,

Or to watch old Madge when her spindle twirls, And she tends it like a sage."

Oh, the leaves, brown, yellow, and red, still fall,

Fall and fall over churchyard or hall.

"Yea, yea, but thou art the world's best Rose,
And about thee flowers I'll twine,
And wall thee round with holly and beech,
Sweet brier and jessamine."

"Nay, nay, sweet master, I'm no Rose,

But a woman indeed, indeed,

And love many things both great and small,
And of many things more take heed."

Oh, the shower and the sunshine every day,
Pass and pass, be ye sad, be ye gay.

"Aye, sweetheart, sure thou sayest sooth,
I think thou art even so!

But yet needs must I dibble the hedge,
Close serried as hedge can grow.

Then Minnie and Japes and Madge shall be
Thy merry-mates all day long,

And thou shalt hear my bugle-call

For matin or even-song."

Oh, the leaves, brown, yellow, and red, still fall,

Fall and fall over churchyard or hall.

"Look yonder now, my blue-eyed bird,

See'st thou aught by yon far stream?
There shalt thou find a more curious nest
Than ever thou sawest in dream."
She followed his finger, she looked in vain,
She saw neither cottage nor hall,
But at his beck came a litter on wheels,
Screened by a red silk caul;

He lifted her in by her lily-white hand,
So left they the blythe sunny wall.
Oh, the shower and the sunshine every day
Pass and pass, be ye sad, be ye gay.
The gorse and ling are netted and strong,
The conies leap everywhere,

The wild-brier roses by runnels grow thick;
Seems never a pathway there.
Then come the dwarf oaks, knotted and wrung,
Breeding apples and mistletoe,

And now tall elms from the wet mossed ground
Straight up to the white clouds go.

Oh, the leaves, brown, yellow, and red,

still fall,

Fall and fall over churchyard or hall.

"O weary hedge, O thorny hedge!"
Quoth she in her lonesome bower,
"Round and round it is all the same;
Days, weeks, have all one hour;

I hear the cushat far overhead,
From the dark heart of that plane,
Sudden rushes of wings I hear,

And silence as sudden again.

Oh, the shower and the sunshine every day
Pass and pass, be ye sad, be ye gay.

"Maiden Minnie she mopes by the fire,
Even now in the warmth of June;
I like not Madge to look in my face,
Japes now hath never a tune.
But, oh, he is so kingly strong,

And, oh, he is kind and true;
Shall not my babe, if God cares for me,
Be his pride and his joy too?

Oh, the leaves, brown, yellow, and red,
still fall,

Fall and fall over churchyard or hall.

"I lean my faint heart against this tree,
Whereon he hath carved my name,

I hold me up by this fair bent bough,
For he held once by the same;
But everything here is dank and cold,
The daisies have sickly eyes,

The clouds like ghosts down into my prison
Look from the barred-out skies.

Oh, the shower and the sunshine every day
Pass and pass, be ye sad, be ye gay.

"I tune my lute and I straight forget
What I minded to play, woe's me!
Till it feebly moans to the sharp short gusts
Aye rushing from tree to tree.
Often that single redbreast comes

To the sill where my Jesu stands;
I speak to him as to a child; he flies,
Afraid of these poor thin hands!
Oh, the leaves, brown, yellow, and red,
still fall,

Fall and fall over churchyard or hall.

"The golden evening burns right through My dark chamber windows twain:

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