The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

ROK E B Y.
CANTO SIXTH.
THE suImmer sun, whose early power
Was wont to gild Matilda's bower,
And rouse her with his matin ray 1
Her duteous orisons to pay,
That morning sun has three times seen
The flowers unfold on Rokeby green,
But sees no more the slumbers fly
From fair Matilda's hazel eye;
That morning sun has three times broke
On Rokeby's glades of elm and oak,
But, rising from their sylvan screen,
Marks no grey turrets' glance between.
A shapeless mass lie keep and tower,
That, hissing to the morning shower,
Can but with smouldering vapour pay
The early smile of summer day.
1 [MS. "glancing ray."]