The Fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another’s being mingle:—
Why not I with thine?
See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;...
Modernized by Hugh Haliburton
Full oft I muse and hes in thocht.
THE PASSAGE of the speeding year,
And Fortune with her changing cheer,
Are ills on ilka hand contest;
We will not mourn for that, my dear,
But to be blythe we ’ll count it best.
Fast as this warld fleets awa’
As fast her wheel does Fortune ca’,
At no...
