Metrical tales, and other poems; - Electric Scotland

SCOTCH GEEETING TO THE PEINOE OF "WALES. 195
Wliose countless benefits- descend
On earth at every hour ;
And bUnd, methinks, that man must be,
Who fails those benefits to see.
If man to man were only just,
And grateful to his God,
Still bearing with a pious trust
Each Heaven-appointed load,
Methinks that this terrestrial ball
Might still be beautiful to all.
SCOTCH GEEETING TO THE PEINCB
WALES.
OF
On the visit of
their Eoyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales, to Sheffield, in 1875, at the rec[uest of the Scottish Arch Committee,
the author encleaToured to express the feelings ot the Scottish
residents in Sheffield towards the august visitors in this greeting :
—
^ONS and daughters of the north.
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^^
From our Scottish homes come forth,
Loyal stUl to loyal worth.
We, amidst the gathered gay.
Would our Prince and Princess greet
With all honours that are meet
All that hearts with love replete.
Can through feeble words convey.
Nor of power or high degree
Blinded worshippers are we ;
'Tis our joy in you to see
Lustrous worth and rank allied
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