Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-03-17

THE FATE OF MACGREGoR,
RY JAMES HOGG.


mond;
The clans are impatient, and chidc thy delay;
Arise! let US bound to Glen-Lyon away
Stern scowled the Macgregor; then silent and
suen,
He turned his red eye to the baes of Strathfian;
go, Malcolm to sleep, let the clans be dismissed
The Campbels this night for Macgregor must
rest"-
''Macgregor, MacgregOr, our scouts have been
flying,
Three days, round the hills of M'Nab and Glen
Lyon
OF riding and running such tidings they bear,
We must meet them at home, else they'll quickly
be here"
':The Campbell may come, as his promises
bind him,
And naughty M'Nab, with his giants behind him;
This night l am bound to reinqush the fray,
And do what it freezes my vitals to say.
Forgive me, dear brother, this horror of mind
Thou know'st in the strife was never behiLd,
Nor ever receded a foot from the van,
Or blenchcd at the ire or the prowess of man.
But Pve sworn by the cross, by my God, and my
all
An oath which | cannot, and dare not recall
Ere the shadows of midnight fall east from the
pile,
To rcct with spirit this night in Glen-Gyle
Last night in my chamber, all thoughtful and
lone,
| called to remembrance some deeds I had done,
When entered lady with visage So wan,
And looks such as never were fastened on man.
[ knew her, 0 brother! knew her full well
OF that once fair dame such tale. | could tell
AS would thrill thy bod he.rt but how long
she remained
So racked was my spirit, my bosom pained,
l knew not-but ages seemed short to the while.
Though protfered the Highlands, may ,al the green
isle,
With length of existence man can enjoy,
The same TO endure, the dread profer I'd fly.
Tie thrice-threatened pangs Of last night to forego
MacSregor would dive to the mansions below.
Despairng and mad, to futurity blind,
The present to shUn, and some respite to find,
| swore, ere tne shadow fell east of the pile,
Tomeet her alone by the brook of Glen Gyle.
''She told me, and tarned my chilled heart to
a stone,
The glory and name Of Macgregor were gone
That the pine, which had she'd for ages a bright
halo
Afar on the mountains of Highland Glen-Falo,
Should wither and fall ere the turn of yon moon
Snit through by the canker of hated Colquhoun:
That feast on Macgregors each day should be
common,
Tor years, to the engles Of Lennox and Lomond
"a parting embrace, in one moment, she gave:
Her breath furnace, her bosom a grave!
Then fitting elusive, She said. with frown,
The mighty Alacgregor shall yet be my own -
"Mscgregor, Thy fances are wild as the wind ;
The dreams Of the night have disordered thy
mind.
Come, buckle thy panoply-rnarch to the field
See, brother, how hacked are thy helmet and
shield
Ay, that M'Nab, in the height of his pride
When the lions of Dochart stood firm by his side
This night the proud chief his presumption shall
rue;
Rise, brother, these chinks in his heart blood
will glucI
Thy phantasies fightful shall fit on the wing.
When loud with thy bugle Glen Lyon shall ring''
Like glimpse of the moon through the storm of
the night,
Macgregor's red eye shed one sparkle OF light:
1t faded-t darkened-he shuddered-he sigh
.'No not for the universe - low he replied.
Away went Macgregor, but went not alone;
To watch the dread rendezvous, Malcolm has
gone.
They cared the broad Lomond, so still and serene!
And deep in her bosom, how awful the scene
O'er mountains inverted the blue waters curled,
And rocked them on skies Of far neither world
All silent they went, for the time was ap-
preaching
The moon the blue zenith already was touching
No foot was abroad on the forest or hill,
No sound but the lullaby sang by the rill;
Young Malcolm at distance stood crouching the
while,-
NJ acgregor stood lone by the brook of Gler-Gyle.
Few minutes had passed. ere they spied on the
stream
A skiff sailing light, where a lady did seem;
Her sail was the web of the gossaner's loom,
The glowworn. her wakelight, the rainbow her
boom;
A dim rayless beam was her prov and her mast, |
Like wold-frr at midnight, that glarcs on the |
waste.
Though rough was the river with rock and cas-
cade. y