bring again to me.</p>
“I am a bending aged tree,</p>
That long has stood the wind and rain;</p>
But now has e a cruel bst,</p>
And my st hald of earth is gane;</p>
Nae leaf o' mine shall greet the spring,</p>
Nae simmer su my bloom;</p>
But I maun lie before the storm,</p>
And ithers pnt them in my room.</p>
“I've seen sae mony gefu' years,</p>
Oh I am a stranger grown:</p>
I wander in the ways of men,</p>
Alike unknowing, and unknown:</p>
Unheard, unpitied, unreliev'd,</p>
I bear ane my de o' care,</p>
For silent, low, on beds of dust,</p>
Lie a'</p>
hat would my sorrows share.</p>
“And st, (the sum of a' my griefs!)</p>
My noble master lies in cy;</p>
The flow'r amang our barons bold,</p>
His try's pride, his try's stay:</p>
In weary being now I pine,</p>
For a' the life of life is dead,</p>
And hope has left may aged ken,</p>
On forward wing for ever fled.</p>
“Awake thy st sad voi