CHIEFLY FROM HIGHLAND STORIES.

Oft the savage Tale in telling

Less of Love than Wrath and Hate,

Hath within its fierceness dwelling

Some pure note compassionate.

Mark, if rude their nature, stronger,

Manlier are the minds that keep

Thought on rightful vengeance longer

Than on those who can but weep.

Better sing the horrid battle

Than its cause of crime and wrong;

Sing great life-deeds! the death-rattle

Is too common for a song.

Lays where man in fight rejoices

Sang our Sires, from Sire to Son;

Heard and loved the hero voices,

“Dare, and more than life is won!”