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Song. A Gurly Breeze in Scotland.

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A gurly breeze swept from the pool     The Autumn peace so blue and cool,     Which all day long had dreamed thereon     Of men and things aforetime gone,     Their vanished joy, their ended dule:     So glooms the sea, so sounds her brool,     As from the East at eve comes on             A gurly breeze.     Sense yields to Fancy 'neath whose rule     This inland scene is quickly full     Of ocean moods wherein I con     As in a picture; quickly gone.     To what sweet use the mind may school             A gurly breeze!

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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