“Ae smiling simmer-morn I stray’d,… When, from the eddying deep below, uprose the genius of the stream.”.
“There was a time, it’s nae lang syne, ye might hae seen me in my pride,….”.
“Man! cruel man!’ the genius sigh’d…. that reptile wears a ducal crown.”

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