The Poetical Works of Thomas Aird
.'»'}'''i\'.f'.:'''l-\:'.~ THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES nm LORD ni.e88 thee, and keep Tiiefii THE LORD MAKE HIS FAOB TO 8HINC UPON THEE; THE LORD LIFT UP HI8 OOUNTENANOB WON THEE, AND GIVE THEE PHAOE. NUMBERS, VI. 24, S*. yHOMAS ^IRD THE POETICAL-^. WORKS OF THOMAS AIRD FIFTH EDITION WITH A MEMOIR BY THE REV. JARDINE WALLACE, B. A. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXVIII A I? Ixfolt/': f,\\;-'i-7irt-l *:. CONTENTS. VI CONTENTS. FANCY, TO THE MEMORY OF A CITY PASTOR, A SUMMER DAY, .... THE CAPTIVE OF FEZ, . A WINTER HAY, .... OUR YOUNG PAINTER, . WASH THE FEET OF POOR OLD AGE, TO MONT WLANC, THE TRAGIC POEM OF WOLU, • THE YOUNG PHYSICIAN, t MY mother's GRAVE, . FLOWERS OF THE OLD SCOTTISH THISTLE- FLOWER the FIRST: MAID MARION, FLOWER THE SECOND: MAUDE OF RAVENTREE THE PROPHECY, . THE TRANSLATION OF BEAUTY, RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, GRANDMOTHER, . THE LYRE, . A father's CURSE, A mother's BLESSING, MONOGRAPH OF A FRIEND, THE CHURCHYARD, THE OLD SOLDIER, THE shepherd's DOG, GENIUS, THE DEMONIAC, . SONG OF TIME AKD MAN, MEMOIR. Thomas Aird, author of the following Poems, was the son of James Aird and his wife, Isabella Paislqjr^ and was the second of nine children. He was born on the 28th of August 1802, in the parish of Bowden, Roxburghshire, under the shadow of the Eildon Hills, in the enchanted Border-land, close to the abbeys of Dryburgh and Melrose, which the genius of Scott has made for ever memorable. The Tweed, which he dearly loved, flows through the classic vale, and from the low the rising ground you see upon the horizon blue line of the Cheviot Hills and Flodden Field.
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