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GLEN-ALMAIN,
or the
Narrow Glen.
In this still place, remote from men,Sleeps Ossian, in the Narrow Glen;In this still place, where murmurs onBut one meek Streamlet, only one:He sang of battles, and the breathOf stormy war, and violent death;And should, methinks, when all was past,Have rightfully been laid at lastWhere rocks were rudely heap'd, and rentAs by a spirit turbulent;Where sights were rough, and sounds were wild,And every thing unreconciled;In some complaining, dim retreat,For fear and melancholy meet;