Castle Gordon
castle gordon streams that glide in orient plains, never bound by winter's s; glowing here on golden sands, there immix'd with foulest stains from tyranny's empurpled hands; these, their richly gleaming waves, i leave to tyrants and their slaves; give me the stream that sweetly laves the banks by castle gordon. spicy forests, ever gray, shading from the burning ray hapless wretches sold to toil; or the ruthless native's way, bent on slaughter, blood, and spoil: woods that ever verdant wave, i leave the tyrant and the slave; give me the groves that lofty brave the storms by castle gordon. wildly here, without trol, nature reigns and rules the whole; in that sober pensive mood, dearest to the feeling soul, she plants the forest, pours the flood: life's poor day i'll musing rave and find at night a sheltering cave, where waters flow and wild woods wave, by bonie castle gordon.