Hours of Idleness and Other Early Poems

 

 

 

 Fugitive Pieces

 

 

 

 

On Leaving Newstead Abbeya

 

Why dost thou build the hall, Son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day: yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes: it howls in thy empty court.-Ossian1.

 

 

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