The Burns Country; With Forty-Eight Full-Page Illustrations From Photographs
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What an lOur of inspiration for a poet! It would have raised plain, dull, historic prose to metaphor and measure." The story of Miss Alexander's neglect of the poet's letter is well known. That it did not proceed from lack of appreciation of the beauty of the compliment the poet paid her, was shown by the care with which she guarded the manu- script until her death in 1843, ^^'^ by the erection of a simple memorial to indicate the place at which she met the poet. These verses of the poem hang o...n the walls of the little summer- house that marks the spot. THE BRAES OF BALLOCHMYLE 163 " 'Twas even, the dewy fields were green, On every blade the pearls hang ; The zephyr wanton'd round the bean, And bore its fragrant sweets alang : In every glen the mavis sang, All Nature listening seenrd the while ; Except where greenwood echoes rang, Amang the braes o' Ballochmyle. " With careless step I onward stray'd, My heart rejoic'd in Nature's joy, When, musing in a lonely glade, A maiden fair I chanc'd to spy ; Her look was like the morning's eye, Her air like Nature's vernal smile, Perfection whisper'd passing by,
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