Here Sleeps the Bard
(Highland Air.)
Here sleeps the Bard who knew so well
All the sweet windings of Apollo’s shell;
Whether its music rolled like torrents near.
Or died, like distant streamlets, on the ear.
Sleep, sleep, mute bard; alike unheeded now
The storm and zephyr sweep thy lifeless brow;—
That storm, whose rush is like thy martial lay;
That breeze which, like thy love-song, dies away!