Ye, whom a friend's dark perils pain,
When terrors most unnerve him,
Learn from this Elephant to strain
Your sinews to preserve him.


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THE EAGLE.


BALLAD THE THIRD.

Nature, what heart may here by thee,
Most truly brave be styled?
The tender mother's it must be,
When struggling for her child!

A Scottish tale, of serious truth,
Will make the maxim clear,
I heard it from a shepherd youth,
As nature's self sincere.

On Scotland's wildest, loneliest ground,
The subject of my tale
Liv'd, where incumbent mountains frown'd