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And soft celestial mercy, doubly blest.
"It is twice blessed,
"It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
Shakspeare.
The singular scenery here attempted to be described, is almost the only part of this rock of stones worth seeing. On an high broken cliff hang the ruins of some very ancient building, which the people of the island call Bow and Arrow Castle, or Rufus' Castle. Beneath, but still high above the sea, are the half-fallen arches and pillars of an old church, and around are scattered the remains of tomb-stones, and almost obliterated memorials of the dead. These verses were written for, and first inserted in, a Novel, called Marchmont; and the close alludes to the circumstance of the story related in the Novel.
