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Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

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RECREATIONS

OF

CHRISTOPHER NORTH

A NEW EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXVIII


CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PAGE
MAY-DAY 1
SACRED POETRY:—
CHAPTER I., 38
CHAPTER II., 53
CHAPTER III., 75
CHAPTER IV., 88
CHRISTOPHER IN HIS AVIARY:—
FIRST CANTICLE, 98
SECOND CANTICLE, 125
THIRD CANTICLE, 149
FOURTH CANTICLE, 165
DR KITCHINER:—
FIRST COURSE, 182
SECOND COURSE, 194
THIRD COURSE, 203
FOURTH COURSE, 212
SOLILOQUY ON THE SEASONS:—
FIRST RHAPSODY, 224
SECOND RHAPSODY, 239
A FEW WORDS ON THOMSON, 253
THE SNOWBALL BICKER OF PEDMOUNT, 274
CHRISTMAS DREAMS, 285
OUR WINTER QUARTERS, 304
STROLL TO GRASSMERE:—
FIRST SAUNTER, 327
SECOND SAUNTER, 355
L'ENVOY 369

REMARKS ON THE SCENERY OF THE HIGHLANDS, 385

RECREATIONS

OF

CHRISTOPHER NORTH.


MAY-DAY.

Art thou beautiful, as of old, O wild, moorland, sylvan, and pastoral Parish! the Paradise in which our spirit dwelt beneath the glorious dawning of life—can it be, beloved world of boyhood, that thou art indeed beautiful as of old? Though round and round thy boundaries in half an hour could fly the flapping dove—though the martens, wheeling to and fro that ivied and wall-flowered ruin of a Castle, central in its own domain, seem in their more distant flight to glance their crescent wings over a vale rejoicing apart in another kirk-spire, yet how rich in streams, and rivulets, and rills, each with its own peculiar murmur—art Thou with thy bold bleak exposure, sloping upwards in ever lustrous undulations to the portals of the East! How endless the interchange of woods and meadows, glens, dells, and broomy nooks, without number, among thy banks and braes! And then of human dwellings—how rises the smoke, ever and anon, into the sky, all neighbouring on each other, so that the cock-crow is heard from homestead to homestead; while as you wander onwards, each roof still rises unexpectedly—and as solitary, as if it had been far remote. Fairest of Scotland's thousand

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